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

拟议的研究将集中在非洲裔美国人和拉丁裔社区所经历的城市贫困和失业问题上，并讨论空间因素还是社会因素更重要。本建议的具体目标是分析城市失业和贫困的空间和社会解释的优点，特别是少数群体的解释，并审查其相对重要性。来自亚特兰大、波士顿、底特律和洛杉矶等多城市城市不平等研究的创新调查数据将用于评估工作信息、缺乏私人交通工具、工作技能以及这些问题如何影响就业。公司层面的招聘行为将被执行，以确定郊区公司是否比城市公司更有可能歧视。

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.