Geographic mobility, race, and wage differentials

Article Abstract:

The earnings effects of the relative immobility of minority workers were investigated. This study developed an equilibrium search model of a local labor market, where worker heterogeneity in mobility costs and firm heterogeneity in productivity result in a non-degenerate earning distribution for equivalently skilled workers. Estimates of the effect of potential mobility on earnings were formulated using data from the January Current Population Survey: Displaced Workers Files for 1986, 1988 and 1990. Findings revealed that potential mobility affects earnings and partially accounts for racial and ethnic differentials in earnings. Moreover, mixed results were found for earnings differentials between union and nonunion workers.

Race discrimination, Residential mobility

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Patterns of change in the intrametropolitan location of population, jobs, and housing: 1950 to 1980

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A model of the location of the jobs, housing, and population within a metropolitan area was estimated for the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. The three-stage least squares estimation method was used in the model, which consisted of 20 simultaneous equations. The results indicated that the coefficients did not appear to demonstrate a consistent pattern over the entire time period, but they tended to be statistically significant for certain decades.

Models, Analysis, Employment, Housing, Urban economics, Population, Change, Change (Philosophy)

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Jobs versus amenities in the analysis of metropolitan migration

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Wages and job opportunities are more important in explaining net metropolitan migration than location specific amenities. The findings support the previous research of Muth but differ from the results of P.E. Graves. Graves found that amenities are a predictor for the analysis of net metropolitan migration. Explanations for the difference in findings are offered.

Population geography, Migration, Internal, Internal migration

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