Race, Urban Inequality, and Economic Opportunity: A Program of Research on Spatial Mismatch, Social Networks, and Labor Market Discrimination

加州大学洛杉矶分校的这项拟议研究将侧重于非洲裔美国人和拉美裔社区部分人经历的城市贫困和失业，并解决空间因素和社会因素中哪一个更重要的争论。这项建议的具体目标是分析对城市失业和贫困，特别是少数群体失业和贫困的空间和社会解释的优点，并审查它们的相对重要性。来自亚特兰大、波士顿、底特律和洛杉矶的一项关于城市不平等的多城市研究的创新调查数据将被用来评估就业信息、缺乏私人交通工具、工作技能以及这些问题可能如何影响就业。将在公司层面进行招聘行为，以确定郊区公司是否比城市公司更有可能受到歧视。

University of California, Los Angeles The proposed research will focus on urban poverty and joblessness experienced by segments of the African-American and Latino communities and addresses the debate about whether spatial or social factors are more important. The specific objectives of this proposal are to analyze the merits of the spatial and social explanations of urban joblessness and poverty, particularly those of minority groups and to examine their relative importance. Innovative survey data from a multi-city study of urban inequality in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit and Los Angeles will be used to assess questions of job information, lack of private transportation, job skills and how these may affect employment. Hiring behavior at the firm level will be carried out to determine whether suburban firms are more likely to discriminate than urban firms are.