Terry Real Estate Program—The University of Georgia

Dr. Richard W. Martin

Associate Professor

213B Brooks Hall
Phone: 706.542.3585
richmart@terry.uga.edu

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Richard W. Martin (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is an Associate Professor of Real Estate. His research and teaching specialties are in the area of real estate development with a special emphasis on the impact of public policy on local economic development. He has studied the impact of housing discrimination and employment suburbanization on urban labor markets. Dr. Martin has been published in Regional Science and Urban Economics and in the Journal of Housing Economics.

Selected Publications

The Adjustment of Black Residents to Metropolitan Employment Shifts: How Persistent is Spatial Mismatch?, Journal of Urban Economics, 50 (1), July 2001.
Spatial Mismatch and Costly Suburban Commutes: Can Commuting Subsidies Help?, Urban Studies, 38 (8), July 2001.
Job Decentralization with Suburban Housing Discrimination: An Urban Equilibrium Model of Spatial Mismatch, Journal of Housing Economics, 6(6), December 1997.
Spatial Mismatch: An Equilibrium Approach (with Jan K. Brueckner), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 27(6), November 1997.

Working Papers

Can Black Workers Escape Spatial Mismatch? The Impact of Black Moves on the Labor Market Effects of Metropolitan Employment Shifts.
The Impact of Employment and Population Shifts on the Structure of American Metropolitan Areas, 1970-2000.
Race, Income, and Spatial Mismatch: Who gains and who loses from metropolitan employment shifts?
White Flight and Black Homeownership Rates, 1970-2000 (with Raphael Bostic).

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