@import url(/css/us/style1.css); @import url(/css/us/searchResult1.css); @import url(/css/us/articles.css); @import url(/css/us/artHome1.css); Home Advanced Search IN free articles only all articles this publication Automotive Sports FindArticles Economic Geography Jul 1999 Content provided in partnership with 10,000,000 articles Not found on any other search engine. Featured Titles for ASA News ASEE Prism Academe African American Review ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports Gender and suburban wages Economic Geography Jul 1999 by Carlson, Virginia L Persky, Joseph J Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. Key words: spatial entrapment thesis, wages and suburbanization, monocentric model, women's labor market. Continue article Advertisement One explanation given for the decentralization of economic activity from central city to suburban locations is the search by firms for suitable labor. The ability of suburban locations to offer firms access to attractive labor, in the form of lower labor costs, is postulated by urban economists in the monocentric model of urban formation, as formulated by Muth (1969) and Mills (1972). In this model, labor and land costs fall off as one moves away from the center of the metropolitan area. Feminist and industrial geographers have suggested, however, that to a large extent the suitable labor for which firms are looking consists of relatively "immobile" women whose domestic responsibilities limit their job search area, eventual commute, and career expectations (Carlson 1997; Hanson and Pratt 1988, 1991; Nelson 1986; see also Preston and McLafferty 1993 for a discussion of the spatial variability of women's commuting behavior). | |
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