Urban labor economics / Yves Zenou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zenou, Yves, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor economics.

Urban policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 509 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book studies the links between urban economics and labor economics. Different models of urban labor economic theory are examined in the initial two parts of this book: first urban search-matching models and then urban efficiency wages. These models are then used to analyze urban ghettos and their consequences for ethnic minorities in the labor market. Professor Zenou first provides different mechanisms for the so-called spatial mismatch hypothesis, which postulates that housing discrimination introduces a key frictional factor that prevents minorities from improving access to job opportunities by relocating their residences closer to jobs. He then explores social networks, which tend to be affected by spatial factors, as workers who are physically close to jobs can be socially far away from them. Based on these models, the author offers different policies aiming at fighting high unemployment rates experienced by ethnic minorities residing in segregated areas.

Contents:

Simple models of urban search matching

Extensions of urban search-matching models

Non-monocentric cities and search-matching

Simple models of urban efficiency wages

Extensions of urban efficiency wage models

Non-monocentric cities and efficiency wages

The spatial mismatch hypothesis : a search-matching approach

The spatial mismatch hypothesis : an efficiency-wage approach

Peer effects, social networks, and labor market outcomes in cities

General conclusion

Appendix A: basic urban economics

Appendix B: Poisson process and derivation of Bellman equations

Appendix C: The Harris-Todaro model.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-499) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-19841-0

9786612391286

1-282-39128-3

0-511-64687-9

0-511-62694-0

0-511-65095-7

0-511-53944-4

0-511-53861-8

0-511-54028-0

OCLC:

437139640