Abstract:In recent decades, most new metropolitan population and job growth has occurred in the suburbs. Conventional wisdom suggests that because of the selective nature of suburban labor market development, most metropolitan workers currently live further from their jobs. Distance, in turn, fragments urban labor markets and creates physical and informational barriers to employment.This article examines the selective pattern of central city-suburban labor market development within the New York Metropolitan Region betw… Show more
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