In this paper, we assess whether boosting minority car-ownership rates would narrow inter- racial employment rate differentials. We pursue two empirical strategies. First, we explore whether the effect of auto ownership on the probability of being employed is greater for more spatially isolated groups of workers. The literature on racial housing segregation clearly demonstrates that blacks are highly segregated from the majority white population (Massey and Denton, 1993) and in a manner that spatially isolates blacks from new employment opportunities (Stoll et. al. 2000). Latino households are also segregated, though to a degree considerably less than the level of segregation between blacks and whites.
