The Spatial Mismatch Between Jobs and Residential Locations Within Urban AreasAbstractThe last half of the 1980s witnessed a revival of interest in the old idea that the suburbanization of jobs and involuntary housing market segregation have acted together to create a surplus of workers relative to the number of available jobs in inner-city neighborhoods where blacks are concentrated. Not only was this hypothesis elevated to a higher level of prominence after 1985, it also claimed a catchy new name—the spatial mismatch hypothesis (SMH). The comeback of the SMH is documented by six review articles on the hypothesis since 1990 (Wheeler, 1990; Jencks and Mayer, 1990; Moss and Tilly, 1991; Holzer, 1991; Kain, 1992; Ihlanfeldt, 1992).The Spatial Mismatch Between Jobs and Residential Locations Within Urban Areas (*.pdf, 111 KB)
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