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Car Ownership and the Labour Market of Ethnic Minorities

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Gautier, Pieter A
Zenou, Yves

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We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labour-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the initial wealth difference, blacks cannot afford cars while whites can. Car ownership allows whites to reach more jobs per unit of time and this gives them a better bargaining position. As a result, in equilibrium, blacks end up with both higher unemployment rates and lower wages than whites. Furthermore, it takes more time for blacks to reach their jobs even though they travel less miles. Those predictions are consistent with the data. Better access to capital markets or better public transportation will reduce the differences in labour market outcomes.

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Keywords: ethnic minorities; job search; multiple job centres; spatial labour markets; Transportation mismatch;

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D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search, Learning, and Information
J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities and Races; Non-labor Discrimination
J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
R1 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - General Regional Economics

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