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Lindenlaub, Ilse; Oh, Ryungha; Peters, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study the importance of firm sorting for spatial inequality. If productive locations are able to attract the most productive firms, then firm sorting acts as an amplifier of spatial inequality. We develop a novel model of spatial firm sorting, in which heterogeneous firms first choose a...

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Measuring Information Frictions in Migration Decisions : A Revealed-Preference Approach

Porcher, Charly; Morales, Eduardo; Fujiwara, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We investigate the role of information frictions in migration. We develop novel moment inequalities to estimate worker preferences while allowing for unobserved worker-specific information sets, migration costs, and location-specific amenities and prices. Using data on internal migration in...

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Changes in International Immigration and Internal Native Mobility after Covid-19 in the US

Peri, Giovanni; Zaiour, Reem - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

From the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic to late 2021, international immigration flows to the US decreased significantly. We document the timing and the characteristics of these significant changes in flows, their evolution until late 2022 and their geographic and sector distribution. We...

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Location, Location, Location

Card, David E.; Rothstein, Jesse; Yi, Moises - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

earnings. Starting from a model with employer and employee fixed effects, we estimate the average earnings premiums associated …

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The Determinants of Declining Internal Migration

Olney, William W.; Thompson, Owen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

contributions of earnings and home prices to the noted overall decline in internal migration. These analyses show that wages on … earnings levels in potential destination CZs. However, these wage effects have been more than offset by housing related factors …

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The Role of Non-Pecuniary Considerations : Location Decisions of College Graduates from Low Income Backgrounds

Gong, Yifan; Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Stinebrickner, Ralph; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

-pecuniary measures with realized location and earnings outcomes to characterize inequality in overall welfare …

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Homeward Bound : How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates

Obolensky, Marguerite; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper introduces the concept of "climate matching" as a driver of migration and establishes several new results. First, we show that climate strongly predicts the spatial distribution of immigrants in the US, both historically (1880) and more recently (2015), whereby movers select...

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Locate Your Nearest Exit : Mass Layoffs and Local Labor Market Response

Foote, Andrew - 2015

Large shocks to local labor markets can cause long-lasting changes to employment, unemployment and the local labor force. This study examines the relationship between mass layoffs and the long-run size of the local labor force. It considers four main channels through which the local labor force...

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Monopsony, Job Tasks, and Labor Market Concentration

Dodini, Samuel; Lovenheim, Michael F.; Salvanes, Kjell G.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper extends the literature on monopsony and labor market concentration by taking a task-based approach and estimating the causal effect of concentration in the demand for skills on labor market outcomes. The prior literature has focused on industry and occupation concentration and likely...

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Accounting for Business Income in Measuring Top Income Shares : Integrated Accrual Approach Using Individual and Firm Data from Norway

Alstadsæter, Annette - 2016

Norway, we are able to attribute business income to personal owners as it accrues rather than when it is realized. This … was massive: accounting for earnings retained in the corporate sector leads to more than doubling of the share of income … of top 0.1% in some years. Furthermore, adjusting for retained earnings stabilizes the composition of the top income …

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