Migration constraints and disparate responses to changing job opportunities

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Using the Current Population Survey between 1996 and 2018, this paper investigates the role constraints to migration might play in explaining racial/ethnic disparities in the labor market. The Delta Index of dissimilarity is used to illustrate a greater distributional mismatch between race/education specific workers and jobs among minorities relative to white non-Hispanics. Regression analysis then shows that this mismatch is consistent with minorities being less responsive to changes in the distribution of job opportunities. However, minorities are more responsive when the growing job opportunities are located in areas with greater same-racial/ethnic representation, suggesting that social constraints might play a role in the observed distributional mismatch. The analysis focuses on 25-54 year old men.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2019-1

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Demographic Economics: Public Policy
• Subject: racial labor market disparities ; migration costs ; Delta Index ; social costs ; place-based ; people-based ; mismatch

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Burns, Kalee E. ; Hotchkiss, Julie L.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
• (where): Atlanta, GA
• (when): 2019

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.29338/wp2019-01
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/200539
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET