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Title: Going Nowhere Fast: Urban Mobility, Job Access and Employment Outcomes

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: Providing fast transportation within cities is often considered as a way to improve labour market connections. This paper will quantify metropolitan level mobility with respect to home-work commuting. Commuter mobility in the US is found to vary substantially across metros in both levels and trends during the 2005-2014 study period. The impact of mobility on access to jobs is theoretically ambiguous due to mobility inducing urban sprawl. An instrumental variable method will exploit random variation in the political process governing transportation infrastructure funding. Results provide causal evidence that increased commuter mobility led workers to experience reduced local job density. Estimates fail to find evidence that commuter mobility improved labour market outcomes. Findings are consistent with increased commuter mobility exacerbating spatial mismatch through employment dispersion.

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Authors: Tyndall, Justin

Publisher: University of British Columbia

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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