Space as a signal: How employers perceive neighborhoods in four metropolitan labor markets

Urban Inequality: Evidence From Four Cities

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 304-338

  Tilly, Chris ^a   Moss, Philip ^a   Kirschenman, Joleen ^b   Kennelly, Ivy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Citadel Investment Group   (United States)

^c Georgia Technological Institute   (United States)

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