Urban Labor Markets and Job Opportunities.

Three fundamental mismatches in labor markets are being played out in the cities: the skills mismatch between the young people emerging from urban school systems and high-paying jobs in the growth sectors of the economy; the spatial mismatch between unemployed workers in the inner cities and the new jobs being generated in the suburbs; and the social mismatch between employers unwilling to take risks in hiring and city youth who from a young age have been part of the high-risk worlds of drugs and crime. This volume investigates the structural changes that have produced these mismatches and how various vehicles for job mobility are now functioning.