TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Selod, Harris
AU  - Zenou, Yves
        TI  - Does City Structure Affect the Labor Market Outcomes of Black Workers?
        PY  - 2003/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 928
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp928
        AB  - In this paper, location choices are driven by households (both blacks and whites) consciously
choosing to trade off proximity to neighbors of similar racial backgrounds for proximity to jobs.
Because of coordination failures in the location choices, multiple urban equilibria emerge.
There is a ‘Spatial-Mismatch Equilibrium’ in which blacks reside far away from jobs and
experience high unemployment rates and a ‘Spatial-Matching Equilibrium’ in which blacks are
closer to jobs and experience lower unemployment rates. Under some reasonable condition,
we demonstrate that all workers are better off under the Spatial-Matching Equilibrium, leaving
a role for policy intervention.
        KW  - social networks
KW  - racial preferences
KW  - multiple equilibria
KW  - spatial mismatch
KW  - labor discrimination
        ER  -