Job Displacement and the Duration of Joblessness: The Role of Spatial Mismatch

Fredrik Andersson; John Haltiwanger; Mark Kutzbach; Henry O. Pollakowski; Daniel H. Weinberg

doi:10.1162/rest_a_00707

Job Displacement and the Duration of Joblessness: The Role of Spatial Mismatch

Fredrik Andersson¹; John Haltiwanger²; Mark Kutzbach³; Henry O. Pollakowski⁴; Daniel H. Weinberg⁵

¹ Bank of America · ² University of Maryland and U.S. Census Bureau · ³ Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation · ⁴ Harvard University · ⁵ DHW Consulting and U.S. Census Bureau (retired)

The Review of Economics and Statistics 2018 open access

This paper presents a new approach to the measurement of the effects of spatial mismatch that takes advantage of matched employeremployee administrative data integrated with a person-specific job accessibility measure, as well as demographic and neighborhood characteristics. We focus on a group of job searchers for plausibly exogenous reasons: lower-income workers with strong labor force attachment separated during a mass layoff. Our results support the spatial mismatch hypothesis. We find that better job accessibility significantly decreases the duration of joblessness among lower-income displaced workers, especially for blacks, women, and older workers.

DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_00707
Volume: 100 (2)
Pages: 203-218
Language: en
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