The Availability of Women Workers Effects on Company Location
- List Price: $170.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis
- Publish date: 03/01/1998
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This book examines the role that women workers play in drawing companies from central cities to suburban locations. Movement of jobs from cities to suburbs has meant a substantial loss of jobs for central-city residents, especially those restricted to living and working in inner-city neighborhoods because of transportation and housing barriers. This out-migration of economic activity also has resulted in decreased tax revenues for central city services, a population shift from the central city to the suburbs as people follow jobs, and increased demands for highways and other infrastructure.
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Few studies that have attempted to explain the reasons for this movement have looked at the available labor supply in drawing firms beyond the city limits. Some have argued, however, that increasingly firms are drawn to the suburbs to tap a supply of white, second-earner women with good basic skills. This book is the first to use both a statistical model of intra-metropolitan firm location and a survey of firms to establish the importance of female labor to firms' decisions to choose suburban sites. The study finds that the availability of such workers does influence firms to choose the suburbs.
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