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Cities, matching and the productivity gains of agglomeration
Andersson, Fredrick; Burgess, Simon; Lane, Julia I. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
agglomeration. However, the nature of those benefits remains unclear. In this paper we take advantage of a new dataset to quantify … the role of one of the main contenders - the matching of workers and jobs. Using individual level data for two large US … states we show that thicker urban labour markets are associated with more assortative matching between workers and firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745550
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City of dreams
De la Roca, Jorge; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Higher ability workers benefit more from bigger cities while housing costs there are higher for everyone, and yet there is little sorting on ability. A possible explanation is that young individuals have an imperfect assessment of their ability, and, when they learn about it, early decisions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126686
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Conflict-induced displacement and labour market outcomes: evidence from post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kondylis, Florence - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
This study uses a longitudinal data source to study the effects of conflict-induced displacement on labour market outcomes for Bosnians in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina. To account for endogeneity in the displacement status, I exploit the fact that the level of violence in the pre-war...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746697
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Labor pooling, labor poaching and spatial clustering
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
When firms cluster in the same local labor market, they face a trade-off between the benefits of labor pooling (i.e., access to workers whose knowledge help reduce costs) and the costs of labor poaching (i.e., loss of some key workers to competition and the indirect effect of a higher wage bill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745267
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The plant size-place effect: agglomeration and monopsony in labour markets
Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
, many popular theories of agglomeration – spillovers, cost advantages and improved match quality – predict that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745919
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The urban wage growth premium: sorting or learning?
D'Costa, Sabine; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
This paper is concerned with the urban wage premium and addresses two central issues about which the field has not yet reached a consensus: first, the extent to which sorting of high ability individuals into urban areas explains the urban wage premium and second, whether workers receive this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126674
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Trade and industrial location with heterogeneous labor
Amiti, Mary; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
the quality of the match between job and worker, trade liberalization may lead to industrial agglomeration and inter …-industry trade. The agglomeration force is the improvement in the quality of matches when firms recruit from a bigger pool of labor …. The forces against agglomeration are the existence of trade costs and monopoly power in the labor market. We show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745739
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Trade and industrial location with heterogeneous labor
Amiti, Mary; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
to industrial agglomeration and inter-regional trade. Labor heterogeneity gives local monopoly power to firms but also … the local market, giving rise to an agglomeration force which can offset the forces against, trade costs and the erosion … of monopoly power. We derive analytically a robust agglomeration equilibrium and illustrate its properties with numerical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746150
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Inactivity among prime age men in the UK
Faggio, Giulia; Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
Inactivity rates among prime-age men in the UK have risen by at least five times since the early 1970s whereas unemployment rates are much the same. Furthermore, inactivity is strongly concentrated among the unskilled and those suffering from a limiting long-term illness or disability. In our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744826
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Incentives in competitive search equilibrium
Moen, Espen R.; Rosen, Asa - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
This paper analyses the interaction between internal agency problems within firms and external search frictions when workers have private information. We show that the allocation of resources is determined by a modified Hosios Rule. We then analyze the effect of changes in the macro economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745548