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The study aims to examine how social and economic distances impact the spatial patterns of unemployment in Chicago from 1980 to 1990.

Socio‐economic distance and spatial patterns in unemployment

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Examines spatial patterns of unemployment in Chicago, showing how distance metrics affect employment status.

The study aims to examine how social and economic distances impact the spatial patterns of unemployment in Chicago from 1980 to 1990.
Analyzed unemployment clustering using metrics like physical distance, travel time, and ethnic and occupational distribution.
Applied non-parametric estimates of correlation across Census tracts based on various distance metrics.
Conditioned results on a set of tract characteristics to assess spatial autocorrelation.
Found strong positive spatial dependence in unemployment rates across all distance metrics.
Conditioning on covariates eliminated most spatial autocorrelation, except for physical and occupational distances.
Racial and ethnic composition significantly contributed to explaining correlation patterns.

Conley et al. (2002) studied this question.

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