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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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Endogenous job destruction and job matching in cities

Zenou, Yves - 2007

. They reside in a city and commuting to the job center involves both pecuniary and time costs. Thus, workers with high wages …

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Search, wage posting, and urban spatial structure

Zenou, Yves - 2008

We develop an urban-search model in which firms post wages. When all workers are identical, the Diamond paradox holds … conditions, two wages emerge in equilibrium. The commuting cost affects the land market but also the labor market through wages …

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How Does Imperfect Competition in the Labor Market Affect Unemployment Policies?

Wauthy, Xavier; Zenou, Yves - 2001

different technologies that imperfectly compete in wages to attract these workers. Once employed, each worker bears an education … subsidy either the education cost or wages and compare them. We found that the first best allocation can only be implemented … firms and show that, in terms of welfare, subsidizing education costs or wages is strictly equivalent. …

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Out of sight, out of mind: migration, entrepreneurship and social capital

Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - 2009

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non-migrants. We develop a theoretical search model that puts forward the trade off faced by returnees since overseas migration provides an opportunity for human and physical capital...

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How important is access to jobs? Old question - improved answer

Åslund, Olof; Östh, John; Zenou, Yves - 2006

We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee dispersal policy to get exogenous variation in individual locations. Using very detailed data on the exact location of all residences and workplaces in Sweden, we find that having...

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Car ownership and the labor market of ethnic minorities

Gautier, Pieter A.; Zenou, Yves - 2008

equilibrium, blacks end up with both higher unemployment rates and lower wages than whites. Furthermore, it takes more time for …

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Does city Structure affect the labor market outcomes of black workers?

Selod, Harris; Zenou, Yves - 2003

In this paper, location choices are driven by households (both blacks and whites) consciously choosing to trade off proximity to neighbors of similar racial backgrounds for proximity to jobs. Because of coordination failures in the location choices, multiple urban equilibria emerge. There is a...

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Do Oppositional Identities Reduce Employment for Ethnic Minorities?

Battu, Harminder; Mwale, McDonald; Zenou, Yves - 2003

We develop a model in which non-white individuals are defined with respect to their social environment (family, friends, neighbors) and their attachments to their culture of origin (religion, language), and in which jobs are mainly found through social networks. We found that, depending on how...

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Spatial Mismatch: From the Hypothesis to the Theories

Selod, Harris; Gobillon, Laurent; Zenou, Yves - 2003

Since the 1950s, there has been a steady decentralization of entry-level jobs towards the suburbs of American cities, while racial minorities ?and particularly blacks? have remained in city centers. In this context, the spatial mismatch hypothesis argues that because the residential locations of...

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