urban configurations then emerge depending on the competitiveness of the existing firms on the labour market. More jobs are …Cities are often viewed as places fostering employment. It is shown that the choice of a particular location within a … city is a key factor for the creation of jobs by a new firm. This question is addressed in the context of a standard urban …

good, sold on a competitive market, and face demand-induced price fluctuations. It is then shown that unemployment may … arise in equilibrium because of both uncertainty of product demand and job mismatch. Unemployment does not arise, however …, when the variance of the demand shock is small enough and/or the cost of mismatch is sufficiently low. Full employment …

state where all best friends are unemployed. But a weak tie can help leaving unemployment in any state because that person … stuck in poverty traps having little contact with weak ties (whites) that can help them escape unemployment. …

group experiences a lower unemployment rate than the minority group and tends to socially interact more with other workers …

likely to be unemployed, there is then little chance of escaping unemployment. It is therefore the separation in both the …The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can … far away from jobs tend to have less connections to weak ties. Because of the lack of good public transportation in the US …

We develop a model where information about jobs is essentially obtained through friends and relatives, i.e. strong and … increase with the level of social interactions in the city because information about jobs is transmitted more rapidly and, as a … incorporate black and white workers. Because whites obtain a higher wage than blacks, they reside closer to jobs to save on …

as dyads. There are multiple equilibria. If jobs are badly paid and/or crime is profitable, unemployment benefits have to … activities. If, instead, jobs are well paid and/or crime is not profitable, unemployment benefits have to be high enough to … and labour. We consider a dynamic model in which individuals belong to mutually exclusive two-person groups, referred to …