Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279462 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2023-7
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Abstract: 
Using the American Community Survey between 2005 and 2019, this paper investigates the role constraints to migration might play in explaining racial/ethnic disparities in the labor market. We find that Black workers are typically less responsive than White workers to changes in job opportunities, but responsiveness increases when those opportunities present themselves in locations with a higher share own-minority population. We construct an education/race specific Bartik shift-share instrument to control for potential endogeneity of growth in job opportunities.
Subjects: 
racial labor market disparities
migration costs
Delta index
social costs
place-based
people-based
mismatch
JEL: 
J61
J15
J18
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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