Commutes, neighborhood effects, and earnings: an analysis of racial discrimination and compensating differentials
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Earlier studies of racial discrimination and urban spatial mismatch have overlooked the possibility that differences in employment commutes may be counterbalanced by compensating variations in neighborhood amenities, quality-adjusted house prices and earnings. To fill this gap in the literature, a fixed effects commute time model that controls for quality-adjusted house prices, neighborhood amenities and earnings is estimated. Findings reveal that, even though blacks have longer commutes than comparably skilled white and Asian workers, about 33% of the estimated difference is offset by neighborhood amenity and housing price differentials. However, educated blacks have longer commutes than comparably skilled Asians and whites, even after neighborhood fixed effects and earnings are controlled for. Finally, the study shows that household mobility helps the market attain spatial equilibrium regardless of race.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0094-1190
Year: 1996
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Homeownership in the 1980s and 1990s: Aggregate trends and racial gaps
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The developments in homeownership and white-minority disparities in the 1980s and 1990s are reviewed. The findings reveal that a major part of the growth in homeownership and about two-thirds of the white-minority disparities can be traced to domestic factors.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0094-1190
Year: 2005
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