Does transport help people to gain employment? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the empirical evidence

J Bastiaanssen, D Johnson, K Lucas - Transport reviews, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The role of transport in providing access to employment has received considerable attention.
Since transport policies may be motivated by assumed effects on employment probability …

The planners' war against spatial mismatch: Lessons learned and ways forward

Y Fan - Journal of Planning Literature, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Most existing reviews on spatial mismatch have focused on its causes and consequences
rather than the successes and failures of planning practices for addressing this problem …

Automobile ownership and travel by the poor: Evidence from the 2009 National Household Travel Survey

E Blumenberg, G Pierce - Transportation Research Record, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Income, or the lack of it, influences household transportation decisions and the ways in
which individuals travel. Low-income households are less likely to own cars and more likely …

Labor market impacts of states issuing of driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants

C Amuedo-Dorantes, E Arenas-Arroyo, A Sevilla - Labour Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the last years several states have enacted policies granting undocumented immigrants
access to driver's licenses. We exploit the state and temporal variation in the issuing of state …

But what about that nice house you own? The impact of asset tests in minimum income schemes in Europe: An empirical exploration

S Marchal, S Kuypers, I Marx… - Journal of European …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Means-tested transfer schemes in Europe and elsewhere tend to include not only income
tests but also asset tests of various sorts. The role of asset tests in minimum income …

Social equity and urban transportation

E Blumenberg - The geography of urban transportation, 2017 - books.google.com
Throughout US history, low-income families and minorities have faced numerous inequities
related to the provision of transportation infrastructure and services. In the years following …

Unemployment and conditional welfare: Exclusion and belonging in immigrant women's discourse on being long‐term dependent on social assistance

D Bergnehr - International Journal of Social Welfare, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐term unemployment with dependency on social assistance in S weden has increased
and is particularly high among foreign‐born persons. The present study explored immigrant …

Job accessibility and job‐education mismatch in the metropolitan area of Barcelona

A Di Paolo, A Matas, JL Raymond - Papers in regional science, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This paper analyses the effect of job accessibility on job‐education mismatch in the
metropolitan area of Barcelona with regard to both public and private transport. Transit …

Travel behavior of the poor after welfare reform

E Blumenberg, T Thomas - Transportation Research Record, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work
Opportunity Reconciliation Act, also known as welfare reform. As part of this act, Congress …

Shelter from the storm: TANF, assets, and the Great Recession

L Hamilton, B Alexander-Eitzman, W Royal - Sage Open, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
A growing body of literature suggests that asset limits in public assistance are associated
with low savings rates among low-income families. Several states have begun eliminating or …