Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Segmentation for African-American and Latina Women

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A mixed spatially correlated logit model: formulation and application to residential choice modeling

“…Interactions of the commute time variable with the sex and the race of the worker were examined to test for the presence of gender disparity in commute patterns and greater spatial mismatch for non-Caucasians compared to Caucasians (see McLafferty and Preston, 1992;Blumen, 1994;Turner and Niemeier, 1997;MacDonald, 1999).…”

En-gendering Effective Planning: Spatial Mismatch, Low-Income Women, and Transportation Policy

“…Research on women and the spatial mismatch hypothesis has yielded mixed results with support of the hypothesis varying by (1) metropolitan age, size, and location (2) residential location within cities, (3) race and ethnicity, and (4) data source and methodological approach (Bell, 1974;Blackley, 1990;Ihlanfeldt, 1993;McLafferty & Preston, 1992Reid, 1985;Thompson, 1997;Vrooman & Greenfield, 1980;Wyly, 1996). 4 However, a growing body of scholarship by feminists and other scholars, particularly geographers and urban planners, suggests that a narrowly drawn conceptualization of the spatial mismatch hypothesis is not appropriate as the underlying premise for designing and implementing welfare-to-work policies.…”

Assessing the Impact of Location on Women's Labor Market Outcomes: A Methodological Exploration

“…Numerous other studies have documented from large samples of urban populations in Europe, North America, and Australia that women work closer to home than men do. Work by McLafferty andPreston (1991, 1992) and Johnston-Anumonwo (1995) signals that in addition to class and gender, race also affects the size of the geographic area within which people, and especially women, search for and find work.…”