Race, space, and unemployment duration

Dawkins, Casey J.; Shen, Qing; Sanchez, Thomas W.

doi:10.1016/j.jue.2005.02.001

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“…Most of this work has focused on the experience of neighborhood context as a child or adolescent providing a lagged labor market consequence; see: Payne (1987), Moffitt (1992), Corcoran et al (1992), Wolfe (1994, 1995), Gottschalk et al (1994), Gottschalk (1996), Mayer (1997), Vartanian (1999aVartanian ( , 1999b, Pepper (2000), Ginther et al (2000), Holloway and Mulherin (2004). Others, as in the current paper, have examined the relationship between neighborhood population characteristics and contemporaneous economic outcomes for adults; see O'Regan and Quigley (1996), Buck (2001), Musterd andAndersson (2005, 2006), Andersson et al (2007), Bolster et al (2004), Dawkins et al (2005). In various national contexts these studies observed nontrivial partial correlations between the percentage of lowerincome residents in a neighborhood and several measures of lagged or contemporaneous adult labor market performance.…”

Section: Selection/omitted Variables Bias and Measuring The Magnitudementioning

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Does neighborhood income mix affect earnings of adults? New evidence from Sweden

Galster

Andersson

Musterd

et al. 2008

Journal of Urban Economics

107

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This paper contributes to the literature on obtaining unbiased estimates of neighborhood effects, explored in the context of a centralized social welfare state. We employ a longitudinal database comprised of all working age adults in metropolitan Sweden 1991-1999 to investigate the degree to which neighborhood income mix relates to subsequent labor incomes of adults and how this relationship varies by gender and employment status. We control for unobserved, time-invariant individual characteristics by estimating a first-difference equation of changes in average incomes between the 1991-1995 and 1996-1999 periods. We further control for unobserved time varying characteristics through an analysis of non-movers. These methods substantially reduce the magnitude of the apparent effect of neighborhood shares of low-, middle-and high-income males. Nevertheless, statistically and substantively significant neighborhood effects persist, though relationships are nonlinear and vary by gender and employment status. Males who are not fully employed appear most sensitive to neighborhood economic mix in all contexts.

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Section: Selection/omitted Variables Bias and Measuring The Magnitudementioning

confidence: 77%

Does neighborhood income mix affect earnings of adults? New evidence from Sweden

Galster

Andersson

Musterd

et al. 2008

Journal of Urban Economics

107

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“…The impacts of neighbours' social status proved stronger for less-educated and Hispanic youth, although not for black (compared to white) youth. Dawkins et al (2005) found that the percentage of poor neighbours was more predictive for individuals' duration of unemployment than either the percentage of secondary school dropouts or percentage of whites, although the coefficient was only statistically significant for blacks, not whites. However, they did not test the impact of affluent neighbours.…”

Section: Previous Research On Neighbourhood Household Composition Andmentioning

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What Mix Matters? Exploring the Relationships between Individuals' Incomes and Different Measures of their Neighbourhood Context

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There is substantial interest among policy makers in both Western Europe and North America in reducing concentrations of disadvantaged households through initiatives to enhance the 'social mix' of neighbourhoods. However, there is little consideration or understanding with regard to which mix of household characteristics matters most in influencing the socio-economic outcomes for individual residents. This paper explores the degree to which a wide variety of 1995 neighbourhood conditions in Sweden are statistically related to earnings for all adult metropolitan and non-metropolitan men and women during the 1996-99 period, controlling for a wide variety of personal characteristics. The paper finds that the extremes of the neighbourhood income distribution, operationalized by the percentages of adult males with earnings in the lowest 30th and the highest 30th percentiles, hold greater explanatory power than domains of household mix related to education, ethnicity or housing tenure. Separating the effects of having substantial shares of low and high income neighbours, it is found that it is the presence of the former that means most for the incomes of metropolitan and non-metropolitan men and women, with the largest effects for metropolitan men. Research and Policy ContextScholarly interest in the degree to which neighbourhood conditions affect the life chances of children, youth and adults has skyrocketed over the last 15 years, as evidenced by the upsurge of research papers, special issues of scholarly journals and reviews of the literature. 1 Although there seems to be an emerging consensus in the US that

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“…Five studies using US data (Bayer et al, 2008;Cutler et al, 2008;Dawkins et al, 2005;Vartanian & Buck, 2005;Weinberg et al, 2004), six using Swedish data (Galster et al, , 2010Musterd et al, 2012), one using Norwegian data (Toft & Ljunggren, 2014), and one French study (Sari, 2012) find nontrivial effects on various adult labor market outcomes stemming from measures of neighborhood socioeconomic composition. By comparison, only three UK-based analyses Propper et al, 2007;van Ham & Manley, 2010) and one from the USA (Plotnick & Hoffman, 1999) find minor, if any, neighborhood effects on these outcomes.…”

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The Dialectic of Neighborhood Social Mix: Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue

Galster

Friedrichs

2015

Housing Studies

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Race, space, and unemployment duration

Cited by 66 publications

References 19 publications

Does neighborhood income mix affect earnings of adults? New evidence from Sweden

Does neighborhood income mix affect earnings of adults? New evidence from Sweden

What Mix Matters? Exploring the Relationships between Individuals' Incomes and Different Measures of their Neighbourhood Context

The Dialectic of Neighborhood Social Mix: Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue

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