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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Job Access"”.
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Multi-faceted measurements of job access inequity for transit-based workers
Job access inequity, which serves as a key indicator for social injustice, has been traditionally illustrated by spatial mismatch and spatial job accessibility. Job access is usually measured by either car-based accessibility or transit-based accessibility for the entire workforce. However, few …
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Effects of Job Access and Neighborhood disadvantage on Employment Success of Female Former Welfare Recipients
… This study aimed to test the effects of job access and neighborhood disadvantage on the employment success of female former welfare recipients. It mainly addressed vital policy concerns on employment issues of Temporary Assistance for Needy Family (TANF) recipients who exited cash …
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The spatial mismatch hypothesis and Cape Town : a qualitative study on overcoming the barriers to job access
… the study shows that barriers with regard to job access, such as transit and information barriers, concerning job opportunities or vacancies, can be and are overcome. Data were gathered through interviews conducted within the city of Cape Town with employees, owners and managers within the …
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Using Public Policy to Promote Community Economic Development
… strategies? How can transportation policy like Job Access and Reverse Commute grant programs, a people-based strategy, be changed to produce greater outcomes? What lessons can be learned from products of workforce development policy such as one-stop centers, a place-based strategy, in terms of …
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Three Essays on the Housing Market
… for the change of bidding and sorting for job-access over time in Buffalo MSA. Based on the estimation result, a decomposition of the price change is implemented to shed light on how bidding and sorting contribute to the price change of a house with different job access respectively. …
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Three Essays On The Housing Market
… for the change of bidding and sorting for job-access over time in Buffalo MSA. Based on the estimation result, a decomposition of the price change is implemented to shed light on how bidding and sorting contribute to the price change of a house with different job access respectively. …
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Access to jobs : transportation barriers faced by low-skilled autoless workers in U.S. metropolitan areas
… mismatch, the geographic separation between jobs and workers. Although numerous studies examine spatial mismatch, most of them focus on inner-city minorities, and the spatial mismatch problem for all autoless workers in a metropolitan area as a whole has not been well explored. Focusing on …
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Labour market trends since the advent of democracy, with a specific focus on gender issues
… others, the racial and gender inequalities in job access and remuneration as well as improving the employment conditions. Despite these attempts, women have been known to be subjected to different kinds of discrimination. As a result, they have been segregated, and in most case were …
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`Access to Media in Zambia: The Special case of Persons Living With Perception Disabilities(The Deaf and Blind) In Lusaka
The objective of this study was to examine access to media in Zambia: the special case of Persons Living With Perception Disability (PWPD) - the blind and deaf in Lusaka. The specific objectives of the study included to establish the depth and extent of media access for PWPD in Lusaka, to document …
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Essays on Inequality in Cities
… role of exclusionary institutions that limited access to residential neighborhoods for minority families and how they shape the distributional effects of interstate highway policy. I develop a quantitative model with rich spatial heterogeneity to capture how in equilibrium, institutions interact …
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A new jointly estimated model of young adults’ decisions to leave their parental homes and to choose new residential locations
… time, the extent to which affordable housing and accessibility to jobs affect young adults’ propensity to leave the parental home and choose their own residential locations. Contrary to conventional wisdom, both non-graduates and graduates are sensitive to both housing costs and job access, and …