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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Spatial mismatch"”.
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An urban equilibrium model of spatial mismatch
The idea that there is a spatial dimension to the poor labor market outcomes of urban black residents has been understood for approximately thirty years. It was first put forth in the economic literature by Kain (1968) and has generated a consistent stream of discussion. Recently, in light of the …
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Labour market and spatial mismatch in Cape Town
The paper undertakes to research a spatial and skills mismatch in the city of Cape Town. The argument is that industry is moving towards the north of the city and away from areas of the south east. This physically displaces low and semi-skilled employees or potential employees who work or seek work …
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Spatial Mismatch for Low-Wage Workers in post-Katrina New Orleans
The theme of this study is spatial mismatch, a concept that gave rise to an ever-expanding body of research concerned with how and why residential and employment distributions have shifted within cities and across metropolitan areas. The concept grew out of John F. Kain's research on how racial …
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Spatial mismatch in Cape Town : business location and the impacts on workers
… far out to find jobs and work. There is a clear spatial mismatch between places of work and places of residence for the workers of the South east, and overcoming this disconnection is challenged further by an inefficient and expensive public transport service, upon which they are fully dependent. …
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The spatial mismatch hypothesis and the use of social networks for job search in Cape Town
This dissertation explores the spatial mismatch hypothesis in Cape Town; in particular its mechanisms, how they interact with lower-skilled workers in the labour market, and what role social networks play. The spatial mismatch hypothesis suggests that a significant distance between residential …
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The spatial mismatch hypothesis and Cape Town : a qualitative study on overcoming the barriers to job access
Within the context of Cape Town, 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 …
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The spatial mismatch hypothesis and the use of social networks for job search in Site C, Khayelitsha, Cape Town
This is a study on the spatial mismatch hypothesis, unemployment and the use of social networks for job search in Site C, Khayelitsha. The spatial mismatch hypothesis proposes that where employment centres are located a significant distance from low-income residential areas, the result is …
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An analysis of the mechanisms within Cape Town businesses shaping recruitment methods : and its effect on the spatial mismatch in Cape Town
… walk-in recruitment method has exacerbated the spatial mismatch within Cape Town. However, there are Cape Town businesses that have specific mechanisms within their businesses that have shaped their use of word-of-mouth recruitment. The use of this method, has lessened the effects of the spatial …
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An investigation into the barriers to employment for unskilled workers in Site C, Khayelitsha and Du Noon, Milnerton : does spatial mismatch theory apply?
… policies and new development trends, the spatial organisation of Cape Town is dispersed and decentralised. Many disadvantaged communities, including Khayelitsha, lie on the peripheral part of the city in the south east sector, distant from job opportunities. The rate of unemployment in …
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Access to jobs : transportation barriers faced by low-skilled autoless workers in U.S. metropolitan areas
… major concerns in today's urban labor market is spatial 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 …
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Race, class and spatial polarisation in the greater Cape Town
This paper investigates evidence of a possible spatial mismatch in the Cape Town metropolitan labour market that could contribute towards explaining why low-skilled workers' unemployment rates are significantly higher in the south-east townships. Pre- 1994 apartheid laws had a marked impact on …
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Multi-faceted measurements of job access inequity for transit-based workers
… 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 studies have exclusively concentrated on the job access inequity …
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Three Essays on the Housing Market
… in the housing market. John Kain proposed the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis in 1968. He argued that the persistent high unemployment rate among blacks in central cities might be due to the suburbanization of jobs combined with the housing discrimination keeping blacks from relocating accordingly. …
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Three Essays On The Housing Market
… in the housing market. John Kain proposed the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis in 1968. He argued that the persistent high unemployment rate among blacks in central cities might be due to the suburbanization of jobs combined with the housing discrimination keeping blacks from relocating accordingly. …
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Essays on Spatial Labor Markets and Public Policies
This thesis consists of three essays on spatial labor markets and public policies. I study successively the interactions of space with job search, demography and housing policy. In the first essay, I develop a framework to study theoretically and quantitatively the welfare attributes of spatial …
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Essays on labor market inequality
… supporting evidence. In chapter 2, I study the spatial mismatch hypothesis, which proposes that job suburbanization isolates blacks from work opportunities and depresses black employment. Using synthetic panel methods and variation across metropolitan areas from 1970 to 2000, I find that for …
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Unaffordable fare : the cost of public transportation for low-income commuters working at three airports
… that affordability contributes to outcomes of spatial mismatch. These results promote interventions to increase affordability and expand accessibility to public transportation for low-income commuters to the airport.
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Evaluating multi-satellite chlorophyll-a datasets an ocean colour case study within the Southern Benguela
… was far higher than both global products. Spatial mismatch between zones of high chl-a concentration also indicate differences in processing chains and flagging techniques.
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FOOD JUSTICE IN POST-INDUSTRIAL US CITIES: THE ROLE OF NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
… PFIVI scores and NPO-driven programs showed spatial mismatch issues between the programs and community needs in some neighborhoods. This research also highlighted other limitations of these programs and the challenges that NPOs face both on- and above-the-ground. While the NPOs are trying …
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Increasing Saudi females' accessibility to employment via car-pooling in Riyadh : measure the realistic commute cost by network computing methods and investigate the share-ability based on actual taxi trip data
… in different job sectors; (2) examine the spatial mismatch between Saudi females' concentration and their job markets using the notion of accessibility; (3) demonstrate ridesharing's capacity of providing greater access for Saudi women based on spatial analysis of the current commute …
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