Abstract
In this paper we investigate the relationships between job search, commutes to work, and metropolitan decentralization of employment among young whites and blacks. We investigate the effects of travel costs (based partly on access to auto travel) and metropolitan decentralization on distances traveled while searching and working, unemployment durations, and wages. High travel costs and reduced travel distances appear to raise unemployment durations and lower wages for blacks by modest amounts. Furthermore, blacks and inner-city residents do not offset greater metropolitan decentralization with greater distances traveled. Both results are consistent with persistent spatial mismatch.
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