When Work Moves: Job Suburbanization and Black Employment / Conrad Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Conrad.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w24728.

NBER working paper series no. w24728

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

When Work Moves

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2018.

Summary:

This paper examines whether job suburbanization caused declines in black employment rates from 1970 to 2000. I find that black workers are less likely than white workers to work in observably similar jobs that are located further from the central city. Using evidence from establishment relocations, I find that this relationship at least in part reflects the causal effect of job location. At the local labor market level, I find that job suburbanization is associated with substantial declines in black employment rates relative to white employment rates. Evidence from nationally planned highway infrastructure corroborates a causal interpretation.

Notes:

Print version record

June 2018.