Spatial job search, spatial mismatch, and the employment and wages of racial and ethnic groups in Los Angeles

Article Abstract:

Job search is more extensive among blacks, and on certain aspects among Latinos, than whites once relevant characteristics are considered. An analysis of data from the 1994 Los Angeles Survey of Urban Inequality also reveals that compared to their experienced white counterparts, correlations exists between extensive spatial job search and greater employment for blacks and higher wages for Latinos. The correlation between extensive spatial job search and greater employment for blacks was expected given the racial residential patterns and sluggish job growth noted near Los Angeles, CA's minority areas. Greater extensive spatial job search was found to be associated with improving access to private transportation or decreasing average distance to job search among blacks and Latinos.

Employment by Race, Social aspects, Job hunting, Ethnic groups, Hispanic Americans, Blacks

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The spatial mismatch hypothesis and black youth joblessness: evidence from the San Francisco Bay area

Article Abstract:

African American male youths' lack of employment opportunities is due to a mismatch between the geographic distribution of employment demand and blue collar labor supply. This hypothesis is supported by an employment-based measure of the accessibility of employment opportunities in the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose consolidated metropolitan statistical area in 1990. Intra-metropolitan employment opportunities were examined in terms of growth and accessibility. Results indicate that there is little, if any, growth in employment opportunities in areas accessible to black male youths. This explains the employment rate differential of 30% to 50% between white and black male youths. Employment regression by race reveals a lower employment differential.

Analysis, Causes of, Employment, Unemployment, African American youth, Job vacancies

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