Space and Unemployment: The Labor‐Market Effects of Spatial Mismatch
分析住房市场种族歧视对黑人工资和失业率的影响，发现郊区住房歧视导致中心城市黑人失业率更高，效率工资模型下工资也更低。
The aim of this article is to analyze the effects of housing discrimination on the wages and unemployment rates of black workers. The unemployment effect is first analyzed using a simple minimum-wage model. An efficiency-wage model is then adopted in order to endogenize both unemployment and wages. Under both models, suburban housing discrimination leads to a higher unemployment rate for blacks in the central city than in the suburbs. Under the efficiency-wage model, black wages are also lower in the center. The analysis thus generates a link between unemployment and a seemingly unrelated phenomenon: racial discrimination in the housing market.