The effects of segregation and spatial mismatch on unemployment: evidence from France

Laurent Gobillon and Harris Selod ()

Research Unit Working Papers from Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquee, INRA

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate how residential segregation and bad physical access to jobs contribute to urban unemployment in the Paris region. We first survey the general mechanisms according to which residential segregation and spatial mismatch can have adverse labor-market outcomes. We then discuss the extent of the problem with the help of relevant descriptive statistics computed from the 1999 Census of the Population and from the 2000 General Transport Survey. Finally, we estimate the effect of indices of segregation computed at the neighborhood and municipality levels, as well as job accessibility indices on the labor-market transitions out of unemployment using the 1990-2002 Labor Force Survey. Our results show that neighborhood segregation is a key factor that prevents unemployed workers from finding a job. These results are robust to potential location endogeneity biases.

Keywords: residential segregation; spatial mismatch; urban unemployment; sensitivity analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J64 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54 pages
Date: 2007-01
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Working Paper: The Effect of Segregation and Spatial Mismatch on Unemployment: Evidence from France (2007)
Working Paper: The Effects of Segregation and Spatial Mismatch on Unemployment: Evidence from France (2007)
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