Over 600,000 people are now being released from prisons each year. Many suffer from a
variety of serious difficulties as they attempt to reenter society. Among the most challenging …

This article presents a search model which shows that search method choices should be
related to their costs and expected productivities as well as to nonwage income and wage offer …

This paper reviews 20 years' worth of empirical evidence on the 'spatial mismatch' hypothesis.
After briefly surveying the relevant models from urban and labour economics and recent …

For over a decade, policy makers have emphasized work as the best means to escape poverty.
However, millions of working Americans still fall below the poverty line. Though many of …

This paper attempts to estimate the aggregate annual costs of child poverty to the US
economy. It begins with a review of rigorous research studies that estimate the statistical …

A very important contribution to the field of labor economics, and in particular to the understanding
of the labor market forworkers with relatively low skill levels. I think we have the sense …

In this article we explore the effects of labor demand shifts and population adjustments
across metropolitan areas on the employment and earnings of various demographic groups …

In this paper I analyze how young black and white unemployed jobseekers use various
methods of search, and the employment outcomes which result from their use.The focus is on …

In this paper, we analyze the effect of employer‐initiated criminal background checks on the
likelihood that employers hire African Americans. We find that employers who check criminal …

Unskilled workers once flocked to Detroit, attracted by manufacturing jobs paying union
wages, but the passing of Detroit's manufacturing heyday has left many of those workers …