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Wasmer, Etienne; Zenou, Yves - 2000

distortions in the transport market. In absence of these distortions and despite spatial terms in wages, the standard condition …

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Housing and the labor market : time to move and aggregate unemployment

Rupert, Peter; Wasmer, Etienne - 2009

The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is very low in some countries (on average, three times lower in Europe than in the U.S.). We build...

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Ethnic unemployment rates and frictional markets

Gobillon, Laurent; Rupert, Peter; Wasmer, Etienne - 2013

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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On the road (again) : commuting and local employment elasticities in Germany

Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael - 2019

This paper uses the quantitative spatial model with heterogeneous locations linked by costly goods trade, migration and commuting developed in Monte et al. (2018) to address the workings of local labor markets in Germany. One key contribution concerns the analysis of the role of the expenditure...

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Commuting, wages and bargaining power

Rupert, Peter; Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Wasmer, Etienne - 2009

A search model of the labor market is augmented to include commuting time to work. The theory posits that wages are … combinations of distance and wages are accepted, there is non-random selection of accepted job offers. We build on these … ingredients to explore in the data the relationship between wages and commute time. We find that neglecting to account for this …

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A simple theory of industry location and residence choice

Borck, Rainald (contributor); Pflüger, Michael (contributor) - 2007

This paper provides a simple theory of geographical mobility which simultaneously explains people’s choice of residences in space and the location of industry. Residences are chosen on the basis of the utility which mobile households obtain across locations. The spatial pattern of industry is...

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Green cities? : urbanization, trade and the environment

Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael - 2015

This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...

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