Urban spatial transformation and job accessibility: spatial mismatch hypothesis revisited

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This dissertation tests whether changing urban structure has affected low-income job seekers? labor market outcomes differentially by impacting their job accessibility. The relatively poor labor market outcomes of minorities are well-documented in the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis literature which claims that the unequal labor market outcomes are partly caused by the spatial barriers between minorities? residences and their matching job opportunities. This research aims to expand the demographic, geographic and temporal scopes of the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis by studying low-income job seekers? job accessibility in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in 1990 and 2000.

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