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How Urbanization Affects Employment and Social Interactions
Sato, Yasuhiro - 2014
We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...
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Socio-Spatial Transformations, Suburbanisation, and Voting Behaviour in the Vilnius Urban Region
Ubarevičienė, Rūta - 2012
This paper analyses the interrelationship between the process of suburbanization and a changing political and ethnic landscape in the Vilnius urban region. The region surrounding Vilnius city is dominated by Polish identity residents while those who suburbanise into the region are mainly ethnic...
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Spatial Versus Social Mismatch : The Strength of Weak Ties
Zenou, Yves - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic minorities. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing...
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High Relocation Costs in Search-Matching Models : Theory and Application to Spatial Mismatch
Zenou, Yves - 2021
and commuting costs because firms need to compensate the transportation cost difference between the employed and …
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Endogenous Job Destruction and Job Matching in Cities
Zenou, Yves - 2021
. They reside in a city and commuting to the job center involves both pecuniary and time costs. Thus, workers with high wages … are willing to live closer to jobs to save on time commuting costs. We show that, in equilibrium, there is a one … commuting costs and land rent create additional frictions in the labor market …
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Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages Based on Urban Economic Theory
Ross, Stephen L. - 2014
Recent theoretical work has examined the spatial distribution of unemployment using the efficiency wage model as the mechanism by which unemployment arises in the urban economy. This paper extends the standard efficiency wage model in order to allow for behavioral substitution between leisure...
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Economic Shocks and Internal Migration
Monras, Joan - 2015
Previous literature shows that internal migration rates are strongly procyclical. This would seem to imply that geographic relocation does not help mitigate negative local economic shocks during recessions. This paper shows that this is not the case. I document that net in-migration rates...
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Place-Based Policies and Agglomeration Economies : Firm-Level Evidence from Special Economic Zones in India
Görg, Holger; Mulyukova, Alina - 2022
This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with...
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Development Level of Hosting Areas and the Impact of Refugees on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes
Aracı, Doğu; Demirci, Murat; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2022
We examine how the impact of refugees on natives' labor market outcomes varies by the development level of hosting areas, which has important implications for the optimal allocation of refugees across regions and countries. For this purpose, in the context of the largest refugee group in the...
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Land Use Rights, Market Transitions, and Labor Policy Change in China (1980-4)
Chen, Yiu Por - 2012
This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in the country's market transition. I show that the...
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