Do Low-Wage Employers Discriminate Against Applicants with Long Commutes?: Evidence from a Correspondence Experiment

DC Phillips - Journal of Human Resources, 2020 - jhr.uwpress.org
I use a correspondence study of the low-wage labor market in Washington, DC to test
whether employers discriminate against applicants who live farther from the job location …

Do firms redline workers?

AM Diaz, LM Salas - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
Firms statistically discriminate (redline) against job candidates based on where they live. We
conducted a correspondence test by sending three identical fictitious resumes to every non …

Neighborhood signaling effects, commuting time, and employment: Evidence from a field experiment

M Carlsson, AA Reshid, DO Rooth - International Journal of …, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether there is unequal treatment in
hiring depending on whether a job applicant signals living in a bad (deprived) neighborhood …

Systemic discrimination among large US employers

P Kline, EK Rose, CR Walters - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We study the results of a massive nationwide correspondence experiment sending more
than 83,000 fictitious applications with randomized characteristics to geographically …

Spatial mismatch is not always a central-city problem: an analysis of commuting behaviour in Cleveland, Ohio, and its suburbs

PD Gottlieb, B Lentnek - Urban Studies, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
One prediction of the spatial mismatch hypothesis is that black residents of the central city
will have longer commutes than others. This prediction actually has two different …

Spatial mismatch and social acceptability

DL Sjoquist - Journal of Urban Economics, 2001 - Elsevier
Research on spatial mismatch has focused on its effects on job access, but not on the
mechanisms through which the effects operate. We explore one such mechanism—namely …

[PDF][PDF] Are Workers Better Matched in Large Labor Markets?

NA Harmon - Job market paper, Princeton University, 2013 - aeaweb.org
This paper examines the relationship between labor market size and job search outcomes.
Much research and many policy initiatives assume that larger labor markets lead to better …

Mismatch unemployment and the geography of job search

I Marinescu, R Rathelot - American Economic Journal …, 2018 - aeaweb.org
Could we significantly reduce US unemployment by helping job seekers move closer to
jobs? Using data from the leading employment board CareerBuilder. com, we show that …

Racial and ethnic differences in job-search strategies in Atlanta, Boston, and Los Angeles

GP Green, LM Tigges, D Diaz - Social science quarterly, 1999 - JSTOR
Objective. Recent research on employer hiring and worker search behavior has emphasized
the importance of social ties in matching workers to job opportunities. There are mixed …

Employer neighborhoods and racial discrimination

AY Agan, SB Starr - 2020 - nber.org
Using a large field experiment, we show that racial composition of employer neighborhoods
predicts employment discrimination patterns in a direction suggesting in-group bias. Our …