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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP9507 |
DP9507 Ethnic Unemployment Rates and Frictional Markets | |
Etienne Wasmer; Laurent Gobillon; Peter Rupert | |
发表日期 | 2013-06-16 |
出版年 | 2013 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the US the unemployment rate is approximately 9 percentage points higher for blacks than for whites. Commute time data indicates that minorities face longer commute times to work, potentially reflecting more difficult access to jobs. In this paper we investigate the impact of spatial mismatch on the unemployment rate of ethnic groups using the matching model proposed by Rupert and Wasmer (2012). We find that spatial factors explain between 1 to 1.5 percentage points of the unemployment rate gap in both France and the US, amounting to 17% to 25% of the relative gap in France and about 10% in the US. Among these factors, differences in commuting distance plays the most important role. In France, though, longer commuting distances may be mitigated by higher mobility in the housing market for African workers. Overall, we still conclude that labor market factors remain the main explanation for the higher unemployment rate of Africans. |
主题 | International Trade and Regional Economics ; Labour Economics |
关键词 | Discrimination Ethnic groups Local markets Matching model |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp9507 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/538343 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Etienne Wasmer,Laurent Gobillon,Peter Rupert. DP9507 Ethnic Unemployment Rates and Frictional Markets. 2013. |
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