Accessibility and Economic Opportunity

Almost thirty years ago, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences asked John Meyer to organize an exploration of the links between transportation and poverty. During the spring of 1968, a dozen papers were commissioned, in collaboration with Harvard’s Program on Regional and Urban Economics and also with the Joint Center, on topics ranging from the impact of free public transit on urban poverty to the calculation of the social costs of urban expressways.

[1]  John R. Meyer,et al.  The Urban Transportation Problem , 1965 .

[2]  J. Kain.  Housing Segregation, Negro Employment, and Metropolitan Decentralization , 1968 .

[3]  Joseph D. Mooney.  Housing Segregation, Negro Employment and Metropolitan Decentralization: An Alternative Perspective , 1969 .

[4]  R. Noll.  Metropolitan employment and population distribution and the conditions of the urban poor , 1970 .

[5]  Stanley H. Masters.  A Note on John Kain's "Housing Segregation, Negro Employment, and Metropolitan Decentralization" , 1971 .

[6]  Bennett Harrison,et al.  THE INTRAMETROPOLITAN DISTRIBUTION OF MINORITY ECONOMIC WELFARE , 1972 .

[7]  Mark S. Granovetter.  Getting a Job: A Study of Contacts and Careers , 1974 .

[8]  J. Vrooman,et al.  Are blacks making it in the suburbs? Some new evidence on intrametropolitan spatial segmentation , 1980 .

[9]  D. Ellwood.  The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis: are There Teenage Jobs Missing in the Ghetto? , 1983 .

[10]  Jonathan S. Leonard.  The Interaction of Residential Segregation and Employment Discrimination , 1984 .

[11]  E. Mills,et al.  Race and residence in earnings determination , 1985 .

[12]  W. Wilson,et al.  The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Underclass, and Public Policy. , 1988 .

[13]  K. Ihlanfeldt,et al.  The impact of job decentralization on the economic welfare of central city blacks , 1989 .

[14]  John D. Kasarda,et al.  Urban Industrial Transition and the Underclass , 1989 .

[15]  David L. Sjoquist,et al.  Job Accessibility and Racial Differences in Youth Employment Rates , 1990 .

[16]  Jeffrey S. Zax,et al.  Race and commutes , 1990 .

[17]  Jeffrey S. Zax,et al.  Compensation for commutes in labor and housing markets , 1991 .

[18]  Harry J. Holzer,et al.  The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis: What Has the Evidence Shown? , 1991 .

[19]  David L. Sjoquist,et al.  The Effect of Job Access on Black and White Youth Employment: A Cross-sectional Analysis , 1991 .

[20]  John F. Kain,et al.  The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis: Three Decades Later , 1992 .

[21]  Reverse Commute Transportation: Emerging Provider Roles , 1992 .

[22]  K. O’Regan.  The effect of social networks and concentrated poverty on black and hispanic youth unemployment , 1993 .

[23]  K. O’Regan,et al.  Teenage Employment and the Spatial Isolation of Minority and Poverty Households , 2004 .

[24]  Dan Immergluck,et al.  What employers want: Job prospects for less-educated workers , 1996 .

[25]  S. Holloway.  Job Accessibility and Male Teenage Employment, 1980–1990: The Declining Significance of Space?∗ , 1996 .

[26]  K. O’Regan,et al.  PROGRAM ON HOUSING AND URBAN POLICY WORKING PAPER SERIES , 2022 .

[27]  S. Raphael.  The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis and Black Youth Joblessness: Evidence from the San Francisco Bay Area* , 1998 .

[28]  K. O’Regan,et al.  Where Youth Live: Economic Effects of Urban Space on Employment Prospects , 1998 .

[29]  Paul A. Jargowsky,et al.  Poverty and Place: Ghettos, Barrios, and the American City , 1998 .