Within cities and suburbs : racial residential concentration and the spatial distribution of employment opportunities across sub-metropolitan areas
By: STOLL, Michael
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Contributor(s): HOLZER, Harry J | IHLANFELDT, Keith.
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ArticlePublisher: 2000Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 19, 2, p. 207-231Abstract: This article examines and compares the spatial distributions of new jobs and people across sub-metropolitan areas for Atlanta, boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles. the jobs data come from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality and the data on people come from the U.S. Bureau of the Census. The results indicate that less-educated people, public assistance recipients, adn especially poor females with children mostly reside in areas heavily populated by minorities where the availability of less-skilled jobs is quite low, while the availability of these jobs relative to less-educated people in suburban areas heavily populated by whites is high. Large fractions of the less-skilled jobs in these metropolitan areas are not acessible by public transit. Furthermore, there is significant variation within both central cities and suburbs in the ethnic composition of residents and in less-skilled job availability. The ability of ethnic composition of the particular area
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This article examines and compares the spatial distributions of new jobs and people across sub-metropolitan areas for Atlanta, boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles. the jobs data come from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality and the data on people come from the U.S. Bureau of the Census. The results indicate that less-educated people, public assistance recipients, adn especially poor females with children mostly reside in areas heavily populated by minorities where the availability of less-skilled jobs is quite low, while the availability of these jobs relative to less-educated people in suburban areas heavily populated by whites is high. Large fractions of the less-skilled jobs in these metropolitan areas are not acessible by public transit. Furthermore, there is significant variation within both central cities and suburbs in the ethnic composition of residents and in less-skilled job availability. The ability of ethnic composition of the particular area
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