Does City Structure Affect Job Search and Welfare

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Location, search costs and youth unemployment: experimental evidence from transport subsidies (2018, unknown): “Thank you to Julia Bird and Tanner Reagon for help with Kampala and Nairobi data. costs when cities are badly planned (Wasmer and Zenou, 2002; Cervero, 2001).”
Residential Segregation and Unemployment: The Case of Brussels (2008, background): “Another mechanism is that workers’ job-search efficiency may decrease with distance to jobs since it is obviously more difficult to search far away from one’s place of residence (as modeled in Wasmer and Zenou, 2002).”
How Important is Access to Jobs? Old Question - Improved Answer (2010, unknown): “Also, for a given search effort, workers who live far away from jobs have few chances to find a job because, for instance, they get little information on distant job opportunities (Ihlanfeldt, 1997, Wasmer & Zenou, 2002 ).”
The Mechanisms of Spatial Mismatch (2007, unknown): “The role of spatial frictions in job search efﬁciency was ﬁrst modelled by Wasmer and Zenou (2002) who formalise the link between distance to jobs and unemployment in a search-matching model (Mortensen and Pissarides, 1999; Pissarides, 2000).”