We find strong evidence that having access to a car is particularly important for black and Latino workers. We find a difference in employment rates between car-owners and non car-owners that is considerably larger among black workers than among white workers. Moreover, the car- employment effect for Latino workers is significantly greater than the comparable effect for non- Latino white workers yet significantly smaller than the effect for black workers. Finally, the difference between the car-employment effect for black workers and white workers is greatest in metropolitan areas where the relative isolation of black workers is most severe. Our estimates indicate that raising.
