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

This chapter discusses theoretical and applied research in urban economics on
decentralized cities, ie, cities in which employment is not restricted to the central business …

" New York is too big this way," the mayor says, raising a thick hand over his head.
Stretching both arms out at his sides, he adds," Los Angeles is too big this way. All the other …

More than 19 percent of people in American central cities are poor. In suburbs, just 7.5
percent of people live in poverty. The income elasticity of demand for land is too low for …

This paper examines the decentralization of employment using zip code data on
employment by industry. Most American cities are decentralized on average less than 16 …

A computable general equilibrium model of urban land use is developed with land allocated
to houses, production, and roads. Traffic congestion and employment location are …

China has undergone large-scale urban expansion and rapid loss of cultivated land for
more than two decades. The goal of this paper is to examine the relative importance of …

Do urban workers commute too much? Bruce Hamilton (1982) was the first to raise the
question whether urban workers' commuting journeys are too long or, in his terms," …

The link between home and work is one of the cornerstones of urban geography. We argue
that this link has been conceptualized in a limited and limiting way, and yet this overly …

A debate over the empirical underpinnings of urban economic models is emerging under the
unlikely rubric of" wasteful commuting." Hamilton (1982) shows that a commonly used …