 Racial discrimination and redlining in citiesNicolas Boccard () and Yves Zenou No 1999013, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) Abstract: We propose a model where employers have two types of prejudices: racial and spatial discriminations. Because of the rst one, black workers have less chance than white workers to nd a job. Because of the second one, workers living closer to the city-center have less chances than suburban workers to nd a job. In this context, we show that depending on the importance of access costs to employment centers two urban equilibria may emerge. In Equilibrium 1 (the access cost for blacks is quite large), black and white workers are totally separated while in Equilibrium 2 (the access cost for blacks is relatively small), workers are separated by their employment status (the unemployed versus the employed). We then study the labor market equilibrium and its interactions with the land market. We show in particular that both race and space matter to explain high unemployment rates among blacks. Keywords: urban equilibrium; access costs; spatial discrimination; urban unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cor:louvco:1999013 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) Voie du Roman Pays 34, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). Contact information at EDIRC. |
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