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Title: The Spatial Mismatch of Unemployment and Jobs in Ramsey County
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Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: The suburbanization of postwar American cities occurred as middle- and upper-class Americans, usually white, left cities for peripheral suburbs. At the same time that people were fleeing the city, jobs were too. In general, the second half of the 20th century saw a trend of economic decentralization at the level of the metropolitan area.1 Meanwhile, those remaining in the city generally did not have the resources to move and/or had limited mobility due to discrimination. As core cities lost more and more of their economic hegemony over metropolitan areas, it began (or rather, continued) to be difficult for the inner-city residents to find employment. This is the crux of the “spatial mismatch hypothesis:” there is a geographic separation between the unemployed and the job openings that they seek. Due to the assumed limited mobility of the unemployed, it is theorized that this spatial mismatch serves to reinforce the high unemployment rates found in core cities.
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Authors: Chen, Zhuo; Mercurio, Ryan; Bermis, Corrin
Publisher: University of Minnesota
Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Population Mobility and Spatial Demography
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