Poverty Suburbanization, Job Accessibility, and Employment Outcomes

Abstract: The last decade of urbanization throughout many cities have seen a perceptible shift in the demand for centralized urban amenities while poverty has increasingly decentralized. Yet, the opportunity landscape of these shifting geographies of poverty and prosperity are not well understood. In this article, we examine how access to employment for low-income households has been impacted as a result of these changing geographies. Using a case study on the Charlotte metropolitan area we examine whether the suburbanization of poverty and reinvestment in the center city has reshaped the job opportunity landscape for low-wage residents. The objectives of this article are twofold. First, we calculate and map autobased accessibility from all neighborhoods in the Charlotte metropolitan area to job locations, differentiated by wage categories, in 2010 and 2017 to identify potential changes in the mismatch between low-income households and access to employment. We use a point-level employment da

Sprache
Englisch
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Anmerkungen
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Social Inclusion ; 9 (2021) 2 ; 166-178
Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main

Urheber
Delmelle, Elizabeth
Nilsson, Isabelle
Adu, Providence
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wer)
SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
(wann)
2021

DOI
10.17645/si.v9i2.3735
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023010509342678470969
Rechteinformation
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Beteiligte

  • Delmelle, Elizabeth
  • Nilsson, Isabelle
  • Adu, Providence
  • SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.

Entstanden

  • 2021

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