Place-based policies

D Neumark, H Simpson - Handbook of regional and urban economics, 2015 - Elsevier
Place-based policies commonly target underperforming areas, such as deteriorating
downtown business districts and disadvantaged regions. Principal examples include …

The mechanisms of spatial mismatch

L Gobillon, H Selod, Y Zenou - Urban studies, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
The spatial mismatch hypothesis (SMH) argues that low-skilled minorities residing in US
inner cities experience poor labour market outcomes because they are disconnected from …

Does better job accessibility help people gain employment? The role of public transport in Great Britain

J Bastiaanssen, D Johnson, K Lucas - Urban Studies, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The combined decentralisation of many firms and services and the increasing concentration
of traditional public transport services in the main corridors of urban centres have made it …

How important is access to jobs? Old question—improved answer

O Åslund, J Östh, Y Zenou - Journal of Economic Geography, 2010 - academic.oup.com
We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis
exploits a Swedish refugee dispersal policy to obtain exogenous variation in individual …

Job accessibility, residential segregation and risk of long-term unemployment in the Paris region

E Korsu, S Wenglenski - Urban Studies, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
The research presented in this paper explores, in the French context, the hypothesis that
employment problems experienced by low-skilled jobseekers are partially caused by spatial …

Segregation

A Farwick - Handbuch Stadtsoziologie, 2024 - Springer
Die räumliche Entmischung verschiedener Bevölkerungsgruppen ist ein zentrales Merkmal
der Städte. Aufgrund ihrer gesellschaftspolitischen Relevanz werden vor allem die soziale …

[HTML][HTML] Analyzing spatial inequalities in use and experience of urban green spaces

A Phillips, F Canters, AZ Khan - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2022 - Elsevier
As cities become more densely populated, urban green spaces (UGS) are increasingly
important due to the environmental and social benefits they provide. Cities are confronted …

Econometric analysis of the link between public transport accessibility and employment

D Johnson, M Ercolani, P Mackie - Transport Policy, 2017 - Elsevier
Modern transport policy analysis has ceased to be mainly about transport impacts and is
now focussed on the effects of provision and policy upon the operation of the economy and …

Job accessibility and female employment probability: The cases of Barcelona and Madrid

A Matas, JL Raymond, JL Roig - Urban Studies, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
The objective of this paper is to estimate the impact of residential job accessibility on female
employment probability in the metropolitan areas of Barcelona and Madrid. Following a …

Socio-economic segregation in European cities. A comparative study of Brussels, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Oslo and Stockholm

K Haandrikman, R Costa, B Malmberg… - Urban …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this study is to compare socioeconomic segregation patterns and levels in
Brussels, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Oslo, and Stockholm with uniform measurements …