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Title: The Impact of Local Labor Markets on the Employment Patterns of Young Inner-City Males
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Acs, Gregory P. Wissoker, Douglas A. |
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The Impact of Local Labor Markets on the Employment Patterns of Young Inner-City Males Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, 1991. Also: http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/dis/infoserv/catalog/detail/120886 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Employment, Youth; Geographical Variation; Inner-City; Labor Force Participation; Local Labor Market; Racial Differences; Residence; Transition, School to Work; Unemployment Rate; Unemployment, Youth Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Over the past two decades, both people and firms have moved from centralized urban areas to the suburbs. Some argue that the resulting spatial isolation of those left in the inner-city has contributed to rising joblessness and concentrated urban poverty. In this analysis, the authors examine the relative importance of spatial isolation, individual characteristics, and the strength of local labor markets on the post-schooling employment patterns of young men using data from the NLSY. Although inner-city youth unemployment rates are higher than those of other youth, the authors found that this reflects differences in individual and city-wide characteristics rather than location within an urban area. Indeed, while living in an inner-city appears to have little effect on the employment patterns of youth, differences in the local economy measured by SMSA-level unemployment rates significantly affect the amount of time it takes youth to find jobs after leaving school and the stability of their employment. |
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Acs, Gregory P. and Douglas A. Wissoker. "The Impact of Local Labor Markets on the Employment Patterns of Young Inner-City Males." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, 1991. |