Job Displacement and the Duration of Joblessness: The Role of Spatial Mismatch
利用匹配的雇主-雇员行政数据和个人可达性指标，研究空间错配对低收入下岗工人失业持续时间的影响，发现更好的工作可达性显著缩短失业期，尤其对黑人、女性和年长工人。
This paper presents a new approach to the measurement of the effects of spatial mismatch that takes advantage of matched employeremployee administrative data integrated with a person-specific job accessibility measure, as well as demographic and neighborhood characteristics. We focus on a group of job searchers for plausibly exogenous reasons: lower-income workers with strong labor force attachment separated during a mass layoff. Our results support the spatial mismatch hypothesis. We find that better job accessibility significantly decreases the duration of joblessness among lower-income displaced workers, especially for blacks, women, and older workers.