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Stoll, Michael A. – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2004
This paper examines whether a geographic skills mismatch exists between the location of less-educated minorities, in particular African Americans, and high-skill job concentrations, and if so, whether it contributes to the relatively poor employment outcomes of this group. It explores these questions by examining data on the recent geographic…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Job Skills, Geographic Distribution, Geographic Location
Holzer, Harry J.; Quigley, John M.; Raphael, Steven – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2003
A recent expansion of the San Francisco Bay Area's heavy rail system represents an exogenous change in the accessibility of inner-city minority communities to a concentrated suburban employment center. We evaluate this natural experiment by conducting a two-wave longitudinal survey of firms, with the first wave of interviews conducted immediately…
Descriptors: Personnel Selection, Employment, Minority Groups, Longitudinal Studies