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This article presents two indirect tests of the spatial mismatch hypothesis. A wage-gradient model and a two-sample t-test procedure are used to examine wage differences across the Cleveland primary metropolitan statistical area (PMSA) for 18 selected low-wage industries. Empirical evidence produced in both sets of tests do not support the spatial mismatch hypothesis in the context of the Cleveland PMSA: A positive wage gradient was not found, and two-sample t-tests did not indicate that wages in industries typified as being predominantly low skilled are higher in suburbs than in the central city — an outcome predicted by a spatial mismatch — for all industries in the sample, with the exception of gasoline service stations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a study which examined spatial statistical analysis of aggregate voting returns, in Nazi Party, Germany. How the growth of the Nazi Party vote in Baden between May 1924 and July 1932; Use of spatial heterogeneity in the Nazi Party's electorate; Importance of geography in helping to explain the nature of the Nazi Party vote.