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Introducing a Method for the Computation of Doubly Constrained Accessibility Models in Larger Datasets
Östh, John - In: Networks and Spatial Economics 11 (2011) 4, pp. 581-620
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Ethnic differentials on the labor market in the presence of asymmetric spatial sorting: Set identification and estimation
Rathelot, Roland - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 48 (2014) C, pp. 154-167
This paper aims to isolate the ethnic gap on the labor market that can be attributed to ethnicity and not to differences in individual characteristics or residential location. Controlling for residential location is important as ethnic minorities often live in distressed neighborhoods. It is...
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The Effect of Location on Finding a Job in the Paris Region
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Selod, Harris - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalities in the Paris region (Ile-de-France). In order to characterize these imbalances, we estimate a proportional hazard model stratified by municipality on an exhaustive dataset of all unemployment spells...
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How Important is Access to Jobs? Old Question - Improved Answer
Aslund, Olof; Östh, John; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee dispersal policy to get exogenous variation in individual locations. Using very detailed data on the exact location of all residences and workplaces in Sweden, we find that having...
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Ethnic unemployment rates and frictional markets
Gobillon, Laurent; Rupert, Peter; Wasmer, Etienne - In: Journal of Urban Economics 79 (2014) C, pp. 108-120
The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the US the unemployment rate is approximately 9 percentage points higher for blacks than for whites. Commute time data indicates that minorities face longer commute times to work,...
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Education, mobility and the college wage premium
Lkhagvasuren, Damba - In: European Economic Review 67 (2014) C, pp. 159-173
Motivated by large educational differences in geographic mobility, this paper considers a simple dynamic extension of Roy׳s (1951) model and analyzes it using new evidence on net versus excess mobility and the individual-level relationship between mobility and wages. According to the model, the...
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Does local access to employment services reduce unemployment? A GIS analysis of One-Stop Career Centers
Joassart-Marcelli, Pascale; Giordano, Alberto - In: Policy Sciences 39 (2006) 4, pp. 335-359
California, (2) their level of accessibility to unemployed workers of various demographic groups, (3) their proximity to …-profit literature on accessibility to social service providers and on spatial mismatch research that emphasizes the gap between places …-Stops are well positioned to serve the unemployed, although accessibility varies by race/ethnicity, age, and location. Access to …
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China's Labour Market in Transition : Job Creation, Migration and Regulation
Herd, Richard - 2010
Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...
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Returns to dialect
Chen, Zhao; Lu, Ming; Xu, Le - In: China Economic Review 30 (2014) C, pp. 27-43
Though Mandarin is China's common language, each region/city has its own dialect. Using a unique self-collected dataset, this paper estimates returns to dialect familiarity in China's largest and most developed city, Shanghai. We evaluate migrant workers' comprehension and fluency of the...
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How urbanization affect employment and social interactions
Sato, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - In: European Economic Review 75 (2015) C, pp. 131-155
We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...
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