David Neumark | Econofact

Jobs and Employment

Concentrated Poverty and the Disconnect Between Jobs and Workers

January 22, 2019

The Issue:

High levels of joblessness have been characteristic of extremely high-poverty neighborhoods in primarily urban settings. Many challenges stand in the way of generating jobs in these areas. These include low skills among potential workers, inadequate and decaying infrastructure, racial discrimination in ...
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Jobs and Employment

How Can We Know if There is Discrimination in Hiring?

October 27, 2018

The Issue:

Groups of workers that differ by personal characteristics such as gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, past criminal record, physical appearance or disability often exhibit measurable differences in wages and employment. However, it is difficult to identify and measure the extent to which differences ...
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Economic Policy

Do Place-Based Policies Work?

November 28, 2017

The Issue:

People’s economic fortunes are often tied to where they live. This is clearly true at the international level, with people in rich countries enjoying incomes twice or more that of people in middle income countries. But this is also true within countries, with persistent low levels of income in cities ...
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