MOVING TO THE SUBURBS - DO RELOCATING COMPANIES LEAVE THEIR BLACK EMPLOYEES BEHIND

This article examines the responses of black and white workers to thei r employer's relocation from downtown Detroit to suburban Dearborn. Es timates of move and quit probabilities demonstrate that white employee s whose commutes lengthened because of the relocation were more likely to move, but no more likely to quit, than white employees whose commu te shortened. Black employees whose commutes lengthened were more like ly to both move and quit in the wake of the relocation. In effect, the restrictions on black residential choice imposed by segregation force d approximately 11.3% of black workers to quit in the wake of the relo cation.