• • There also seems to be a high search cost involve for urban workers looking for a job in the suburbs.

• The phenomenon has many implications for inner-city residents dependent on low-level entry jobs.

• Unfortunately, minorities tend to weigh the short-term loss higher than the long-term benefits and as a result, decrease their opportunity at obtaining a job in the suburbs.

• • Commuting cost is seen as an obstacle for inner-city people to be present for job interviews and furthermore to arrive to work everyday on time.

• In its original formulation (see below) and in subsequent research, it has mostly been understood as a phenomenon affecting African-Americans, as a result of residential segregation,
  economic restructuring, and the suburbanization of employment.

• In the case of places near metropolitan areas, it represents less of a risk going forward than in mining areas.

• Public transportation is problematic in a sense that it is not always prompt and may not stop at all job location sites.

• For example, distance from work centers can lead to increasing unemployment rates and further dampen poverty outcomes for the region at large.

• People who are living away from the job center are generally less knowledgeable about potential openings than individuals who live closer to the job center.

 

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