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Job Proximity and the Urban Employment Problem: Do Suitable Nearby Jobs Improve Neighbourhood Employment Rates?: A Comment.
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Houston, Donald – Urban Studies, 1998
Discusses methodology to examine the problem of spatial mismatch of jobs, showing how the simple accessibility measures used by Daniel Immergluck (1998) are poor reflections of the availability of jobs to an individual and explaining why a gravity model is a favorable alternative. Also discusses the unsuitability of aggregate data for testing the…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Models, Neighborhoods, Research Methodology
"Job Proximity and the Urban Employment Problem: Do Suitable Nearby Jobs Improve Neighbourhood Employment Rates": A Reply.
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Immergluck, Daniel – Urban Studies, 1998
Discusses the methodology used to analyze the availability of jobs for residents of a particular neighborhood, examining the spatial mismatch hypothesis in the context of jobs available to young minority males in cities. Considers the use of gravity models and the importance of large-scale data sets. (SLD)
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Models, Neighborhoods, Research Methodology