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Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2009

We study the relationship between Hispanic employment and location-specific measures of the distribution of jobs. We find that it is only the local density of jobs held by Hispanics that matters for Hispanic employment, that measures of local job density defined for Hispanic poor English...

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Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2007

We contrast the spatial mismatch hypothesis with what we term the racial mismatch hypothesis - that the problem is not a lack of jobs, per se, where blacks live, but a lack of jobs where blacks live into which blacks are hired. We first report new evidence on the spatial mismatch hypothesis,...

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Ethnicity, Language, and Workplace Segregation : Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2002

. In this paper we examine the role of segregation by Hispanic ethnicity and language proficiency, contributing new … the importance of segregation by language and ethnicity in the workplace. Our empirical results reveal considerable … segregation by Hispanic ethnicity and by English language proficiency. We find that Hispanic workers, but not white workers …

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