Job Accessibility and Female Employment Probability: The Cases of Barcelona and Madrid

Anna Matas (), Josep-Lluis Raymond and José Luis Roig ()
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Josep-Lluis Raymond: Department d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici B, Campus de Bellaterra, Barcelona, 08193, Spain, josep.raymond@uab.cat

Urban Studies, 2010, vol. 47, issue 4, 769-787

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to estimate the impact of residential job accessibility on female employment probability in the metropolitan areas of Barcelona and Madrid. Following a ‘spatial mismatch’ framework, a female employment probability equation is estimated which includes variables controlling for personal characteristics, residential segregation and employment potential by public transport network. Data used come from the Micro-census 2001 of INE (the National Institute of Statistics). The research focuses on the treatment of endogeneity problems and the measurement of accessibility variables. The results show that low job accessibility in public transport negatively affects employment probability. The intensity of this effect tends to decrease with individual’s educational attainment. A higher degree of residential segregation also reduces job probability in a significant way.

Date: 2010
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