This paper explores the influence of location on unemployment differentials within Australia's largest city, Sydney. It is suggested that spatial frictions impede the search processes of unemployed residents. The most important friction is related to physical accessibility to work. Despite...

In Australia, poverty is usually measured in two different ways; first according to the number of people who have incomes below a poverty line and, second, by the number who are in poverty after they have paid for their housing. This note calculates both measures for 1981/82 and analyses the...

This paper analyses intra-urban unemployment differentials among male and female workers in Sydney in 1971. Neo-classical models of the labour market and urban development provide the theoretical background. Comparisons are made with UK studies which suggest that high unemployment in inner city...