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Quits, Moves, Spatial Equilibrium and Workplace Relocation
Zax, Jeffrey S. - 1987
When worker commutes are suboptimal, quits and moves are related. Either a quit, a move, or both can achieve an optimal commute. However, with fixed costs to quitting and moving, a quit or move alone is more likely than both together. Payroll records of a firm which relocated from the central...
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The Effect of Infrastructure on Worker Mobility : Evidence from High-Speed Rail Expansion in Germany
Heuermann, Daniel F. - 2018
reductions in commuting time between regions on the commuting decisions of workers and their choices regarding where to live and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453209
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Commuting, Migration and Local Employment Elasticities
Monte, Ferdinando - 2015
model that incorporates spatial linkages in goods markets (trade) and factor markets (commuting and migration). We show that … local employment elasticities differ substantially across U.S. counties and commuting zones in ways that are not well … explained by standard empirical controls but are captured by commuting measures. We provide independent evidence for these …
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Location, Location, Location
Card, David E.; Rothstein, Jesse; Yi, Moises - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
with jobs in different commuting zones (CZs) and different CZ-industry pairs. About half of the variation in mean wages …
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Driving to Opportunity : Local Rents, Wages, Commuting Costs and Sub-Metropolitan Quality of Life
Albouy, David - 2014
We examine variation in local wage levels, housing costs, and commuting costs for 2071 areas covering the United States … within and across metropolitan areas. In an equilibrium model of residential and workplace choice, we use these measures to …
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Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2007
We contrast the spatial mismatch hypothesis with what we term the racial mismatch hypothesis - that the problem is not a lack of jobs, per se, where blacks live, but a lack of jobs where blacks live into which blacks are hired. We first report new evidence on the spatial mismatch hypothesis,...
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Race, Segregation, and Postal Employment : New Evidence on Spatial Mismatch
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2007
The spatial mismatch hypothesis posits that employment decentralization isolated urban blacks from work opportunities. This paper focuses on one large employer that has remained in the central city over the twentieth century - the U.S. Postal Service. We find that blacks substitute towards...
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Pricing Neighborhoods
Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J.; Razavi, Goya - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Education in Denmark is freely available. Despite near equal teacher salaries and per-pupil school expenditure across …
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Self-Employment in OECD Countries
Blanchflower, David G. - 2000
This paper describes measurement of a self-employment rate and the important role the agricultural sector plays in any analysis of the determinants of self-employment. The determinants of the self-employment rate are modeled using a panel of 23 countries for the period 1966-1996. A similar...
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The Effects of Climate Change on Labor and Capital Reallocation
Albert, Christoph; Bustos, Paula; Ponticelli, Jacopo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study the effects of climate change on labor and capital reallocation across regions, sectors and firms. We use newly digitized administrative reports on extreme weather events occurred in Brazil during the last two decades and a meteorological measure of excess dryness relative to historical...
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