Abstract In 1992, Housing Policy Debate published John Kain's comprehensive review of
the extensive scholarly literature on the spatial mismatch hypothesis. This hypothesis …

The role of transport in providing access to employment has received considerable attention.
Since transport policies may be motivated by assumed effects on employment probability …

220 million Americans crowd together in the 3% of the country that is urban. 35 million
people live in the vast metropolis of Tokyo, the most productive urban area in the world. The …

Urban transit systems in most American cities… have become a genuine civil rights issue-
and a valid one-because the layout of rapid-transit systems determines the accessibility of …

Using a rich panel of data on welfare recipients in Alameda County, California, this article
examines the importance of transportation policy variables in explaining the ability of some …

There is currently much interest in the role that transport plays in promoting, or
alleviating'social exclusion'. Exclusionary processes are, of course, multi-dimensional and a …

The research presented in this paper explores, in the French context, the hypothesis that
employment problems experienced by low-skilled jobseekers are partially caused by spatial …

Problem, research strategy, and findings Many studies on transport equity have analyzed
disparities in access to destinations between different population groups. In this study, we …

'Employability'is increasingly being seen as necessary for individuals to ensure continuous
life-time employment in the face of decreasing job security offered by firms (Hillage and …

A common claim in the economic, geographic, and sociological literatures on labor markets
is that space “matters” for labor market outcomes. We review three distinct literatures that …