Intra-Urban Variations in Unemployment Duration: A Case Study

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The paper examines variations in unemployment duration between job-seekers from a deprived urban area and a control group drawn from adjoining areas. The basic hypothesis is that the concentration of 'problem families' in the deprived estate leads to the stigmatisation of the area. Some employers then tend to screen out workers with an address in the deprived estate. Our statistical analysis shows that even after correcting for variations in personal characteristics between the two samples the job-seekers from the deprived area still experience significantly longer durations of unemployment than their counterparts in adjoining areas.

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