Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties

Konferenzbeitrag

We develop a model where workers both choose their residential location (geographical space) and social interactions (social space). In equilibrium, we show under which condition the majority group resides close to the job center while the minority group lives far away from it. Even though the two populations are ex ante totally identical, we find that the majority group experiences a lower unemployment rate than the minority group and tends to socially interact more with other workers of its own group. Within each group, we demonstrate that workers residing farther away from the job center tend to search less for a job and are less likely to be employed. This model is thus able to explain why ethnic minorities are segregated in the urban and social space and why this leads to adverse labor-market outcomes in the absence of any discrimination against the minority group.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: 55th Congress of the European Regional Science Association: "World Renaissance: Changing roles for people and places", 25-28 August 2015, Lisbon, Portugal

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Sociology of Economics ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Land Use Patterns ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
• Thema: Social interactions ; segregation ; labor market ; spatial mismatch

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Picard, Pierre ; Zenou, Yves
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): European Regional Science Association (ERSA)
• (wo): Louvain-la-Neuve
• (wann): 2015

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/124817
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ