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 discrimination and segregation affects the spatial patterns of people/subgroups and jobs in the postwar American urban environment. Specifically, "Housing Segregation" posits that housing-market discrimination is at the root of increased unemployment among inner-city, nonwhite workers; concurrently, the pace and volume of decentralization (of residents and employment) from central-cities reinforces low-income, overwhelmingly African-American isolation and immobility. This study contributes to the New Orleans literature by providing a pre- and post-Katrina snapshot of spatial mismatch. The analysis addresses research questions aimed at gauging the extent to which mismatch and job-isolation have changed for poor workers in the New Orleans metro area since Hurricane Katrina.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.U.R.P.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Planning and Urban Studies

Year

2011

Author dc:creator

• Andrews, Lauren

Contributors dc:contributor

• Nelson, Marla
• Ehrenfeucht, Renia
• Burns, Peter

• Spatial mismatch
• employment distribution
• residential distribution
• Hurricane Katrina

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1292

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-2275