City structure, search, and workers' job acceptance behavior

Article Abstract:

A stochastic search system is created with a monocentric city construction, to determine how such an arrangement affects workers' acceptance of jobs, and the labor market. The results shows that improved commuting facilities promote the compulsion for job search, thus increasing employment, while the large size of a city discourages job seekers and raises the unemployment level.

Job hunting

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Social networks and inequality

Article Abstract:

The implications for inequality of an important form of social capital, the labor market connections are considered. Further, the economic success of individuals that depends on the labor market connections of the social group to which they belong is investigated.

United States, Income Distribution, Social economics, Socioeconomics

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Spatial mismatch and social acceptability

Article Abstract:

Research on spatial mismatch focuses towards its effects on job access and not on the device through which the effects operate. Relatively poorer labor market outcomes, for less-skilled inner-city minorities, are credited for the existence of spatial mismatch.

Urban economics, Job analysis

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