Urban structure and the labour market : worker mobility, commuting, and underemployment in cities /
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| Author / Creator: | Simpson, Wayne |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992. |
| Description: | x, 198 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1313494 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction. 1.1. Defining Urban Economic Problems. 1.2. Labour Markets in Urban Economies. 1.3. An Outline of the Study
- 2. Theory of Urban Spatial Structure. 2.1. Basic Residential Location Theory. 2.2. Refinements to Basic Residential Location Theory. 2.3. Employment Decentralization and the Location of Industry. 2.4. Residential Location with Decentralized Employment. 2.5. Critics of Urban Spatial Theory. 2.6. Workplace Choice and Urban Structure
- 3. Information, Search, and Matching: A Survey. 3.1. Information and the Labour Market. 3.2. Basic Theory of Job Search. 3.3. Job Matching. 3.4. Spatial Considerations--The Island Economy. 3.5. Enterprise Search for Workers and Job Matching. 3.6. Concluding Remarks
- 4. Job-Worker Matching in Urban Space. 4.1. Behaviors of Workers. 4.2. Behaviors of Employers. 4.3. Skill, Search, and Spatial Matching
- 5. Job-Worker Matching and Urban Commuting. 5.1. Explaining Residential Location and Workplace Choice. 5.2. Determinants of Residential Location. 5.3. Determinants of Workplace Choice. 5.4. Evidence on Workplace Choice, Residential Location, and Commuting. 5.5. Further Evidence--Commuting Differences by Sex and Race. 5.6. Concluding Remarks
- 6. Job-Worker Matching and Underemployment. 6.1. Underemployment and Labour Market Theory. 6.2. Underemployment and the City. 6.3. Urban Structure and Underemployment. 6.4. Empirical Evidence. 6.5. Extensions: Spatial Mobility, Job Availability, and Underemployment. 6.6. Concluding Remarks
- 7. Employment Policies and Urban Redevelopment. 7.1. Conventional Urban Employment Programmes. 7.2. Local Job-Creation Programmes. 7.3. Finding the Optimal Local Policy Mix
- 8. Final Thoughts...for Now. 8.1. Workplace Choice and Traditional Urban Issues. 8.2. Workplace Choice and Traditional Labour Market Issues.