Ethnic unemployment rates and frictional markets

Gobillon, Laurent; Rupert, Peter; Wasmer, Étienne

doi:10.1016/j.jue.2013.06.001

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“…Wasmer and Zenou (2002) provide a model of urban equilibrium unemployment where access to employment is negatively linked to distance between residential location and jobs due to information loss, employer's discrimination or connectivity of public transportation networks. Gobillon, Rupert and Wasmer (2014) point out the important role played by commuter distances and housing frictions in the employment pathways of minority workers, relative to the majority, in France. Statistical studies have also documented a significant effect of residential location on job-finding (Duguet, L'Horty and Sari, 2009;Gobillon, Magnac and Selod, 2011), and have related these findings to the spatial mismatch literature.…”

Section: Review Of Discrimination and Immigration Studies In The Frenmentioning

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Better residential than ethnic discrimination! Reconciling audit and interview findings in the Parisian housing market

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General rightsThis document is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. Full terms of use are available: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/pure/about/ebr-terms AbstractThis article investigates discrimination and the interplay of residential and ethnic stigma on the French housing market using two different methods, paired-testing audit study of real estate agencies and face-to-face interviews with real estate agents. The juxtaposition of their findings leads to a paradox: interviews reveal high levels of ethnic discrimination but little to none residential discrimination, while the audit study shows that living in deprived suburbs is associated with a lower probability of obtaining an appointment for a housing vacancy but ethnic origin (signaled by the candidate's name) has no significant discriminatory effect. We have three priors potentially consistent with this apparent paradox and re-evaluate their likelihood in light of these findings: (i) agents make use of any statistical information about insolvency, including residency; (ii) there are two distinct and independent taste discriminations, one about space and one about ethnicity; (iii) these two dimensions exist and complement each other.

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“…Using a dierent methodology, Gobillon, Rupert, and Wasmer (2014) also nd that spatial factors are not the primary explanation of ethnic gaps in France.…”

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Ethnic differentials on the labor market in the presence of asymmetric spatial sorting: Set identification and estimation

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Regional Science and Urban Economics

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This paper aims to isolate the ethnic gap on the labor market that can be attributed to ethnicity and not to dierences in individual characteristics or residential location. Controlling for residential location is important as ethnic minorities often live in distressed neighborhoods. It is also challenging because spatial sorting is likely to dier across ethnicities because of labor-or housing-market discrimination. This paper shows that controlling for neighborhoods and observed individual characteristics fails to provide a consistent estimate for the component of the gap accountable to ethnicity only. However, under some assumptions, the quantity of interest is set identied even when heterogeneous sorting patterns across ethnicities are allowed for and the set estimate can still be informative. A two-step estimation method is presented and applied to explain the ethnic employment dierential in France, between French individuals of North African ancestry and those with non-immigrant parents. Most of the gap is not due to dierences in residential location or individual characteristics, but rather to ethnicity itself.

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“…Wasmer and Zenou (2002) provide a model of urban equilibrium unemployment where access to employment is negatively linked to distance between residential location and jobs due to information loss, employer's discrimination or connectivity of public transportation networks. Gobillon, Rupert and Wasmer (2014) find that spatial factors such as higher commute distance and poorer access to housing of minority workers can explain 20% of the ethnic unemployment gap in France and about 15% in the US. Statistical studies have also documented a significant effect of residential location on finding a job (Duguet, L'Horty and Sari, 2009;Gobillon, Magnac and Selod, 2011) and related these findings to the spatial mismatch literature.…”

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Better Residential than Ethnic Discrimination! Reconciling Audit's Findings and Interviews' Findings in the Parisian Housing Market

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Ethnic unemployment rates and frictional markets

Cited by 31 publications

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Better residential than ethnic discrimination! Reconciling audit and interview findings in the Parisian housing market

Better residential than ethnic discrimination! Reconciling audit and interview findings in the Parisian housing market

Ethnic differentials on the labor market in the presence of asymmetric spatial sorting: Set identification and estimation

Better Residential than Ethnic Discrimination! Reconciling Audit's Findings and Interviews' Findings in the Parisian Housing Market

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