Ethnic Variation in Commuting Propensity and Unemployment Spells: Some U.K. Evidence

Autor:	Jonathan M. Thomas
Rok vydání:	1998
Předmět:	Urban Studies Economics and Econometrics Labour economics Spatial mismatch Variation (linguistics) media_common.quotation_subject Unemployment Ethnic group Economics Survey data collection Differential (mechanical device) media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Urban Economics. 43:385-400
ISSN:	0094-1190
DOI:	10.1006/juec.1997.2050
Popis:	This paper uses 1987–88 U.K. survey data from the unemployment inflow to investigate the ability of ethnic variation in commuting willingness to account for longer non-white unemployment spells. The study is motivated by the possibility that ethnic minorities are at greater risk of spatial mismatch unemployment because they are more geographically restrictive in their job-seeking activities. Our findings support this hypothesis and indicate that lower commuting willingness explains about 20% of the differential between the average unemployment spells of ethnic minorities and whites.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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