Commuting barriers to low-wage employment

IF 3.5 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2023-12-08 DOI:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103970
Scott Abrahams , James Mabli
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Lack of access to affordable transportation has been hypothesized to be a barrier to employment among low-wage workers. We build a structural job search model to investigate how commuting costs influence the employment decisions of low-wage workers in the United States, and whether differences in commuting by race and education can explain observed disparities in employment. We find that commuting itself poses a significant barrier to overall low-wage employment, as the associated costs are high relative to potential wages. However, we find that inter-group differences in commuting costs account for a much smaller fraction of inter-group employment disparities than do differences in other labor market factors such as the wage offer distribution and offer arrival rates.

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低工资就业的通勤障碍
缺乏负担得起的交通工具被认为是低薪工人就业的一个障碍。我们建立了一个结构性求职模型,以研究通勤成本如何影响美国低薪工人的就业决策,以及不同种族和教育程度的通勤差异能否解释所观察到的就业差异。我们发现,通勤本身对整体低薪就业构成了重大障碍,因为相对于潜在工资而言,相关成本较高。然而,我们发现,通勤成本的群体间差异在群体间就业差异中所占的比例远远小于其他劳动力市场因素的差异,如工资报酬分布和报酬到达率。
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期刊介绍: Regional Science and Urban Economics facilitates and encourages high-quality scholarship on important issues in regional and urban economics. It publishes significant contributions that are theoretical or empirical, positive or normative. It solicits original papers with a spatial dimension that can be of interest to economists. Empirical papers studying causal mechanisms are expected to propose a convincing identification strategy.
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