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Spatial Interactions
Kim, Jun; Patacchini, Eleonora; Picard, Pierre M.; … - 2022
This paper studies how the strength of social ties are affected by the geographical location of other individuals and their social capital. We characterize the equilibrium in terms of both social interactions and social capital. We show that lower travel costs increase not only the interaction...
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The NRU and the Evolution of Regional Disparities in Spanish Unemployment
Bande, Roberto - 2011
(NRU) hypothesis as an explanation of the evolution of regional disparities in the unemployment rate. We first present our … persistent disparities in the regional unemployment rates. Through standard kernel density tecnhiques, we demonstrate the … natural rates. Our findings confirm that the evolution of regional disparities cannot be attributed to disparities in the …
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Labour Market Dynamics in Spanish Regions : Evaluating Asymmetries in Troublesome Times
Sala, Hector - 2014
reacts to regional employment shocks in a variety of cases. Shock responses are channelled via changes in unemployment … willing to migrate when a regional shock occurs in relatively worse economic contexts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061922
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Spatial Frictions
Behrens, Kristian - 2013
The world is replete with spatial frictions. Shipping goods across cities entails trade frictions. Commuting within cities causes urban frictions. How important are these frictions in shaping the spatial economy? We develop and quantify a novel framework to address this question at three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087411
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A Wage-Efficiency Spatial Model for US Self-Employed Workers
Giménez, José Ignacio - 2016
In this paper, we study self-employment in a theoretical setting derived from wage-efficiency spatial models, where leisure and effort at work are complementary. We develop a spatial model of self-employment in which effort at work and commuting are negatively related, and thus the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001329
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Network Effects on Labor Contracts of Internal Migrants in China : A Spatial Autoregressive Model
Baltagi, Badi H. - 2017
This paper studies the fact that 37 percent of the internal migrants in China do not sign a labor contract with their employers, as revealed in a nationwide survey. These contract-free jobs pay lower hourly wages, require longer weekly work hours, and provide less insurance or on-the-job...
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Spatial Spillovers of Conflict in Somalia
Alfano, Marco; Cornelissen, Thomas - 2022
Due to economic interconnectedness across regions, locally confined violent conflict may have welfare effects far beyond directly affected areas. This paper focuses on Somalia’s al-Shabaab insurgency and investigates whether the food transportation network propagates the effects of violent...
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Social Networks and Interactions in Cities
Helsley, Robert W. - 2011
We examine how interaction choices depend on the interplay of social and physical distance, and show that agents who are more central in the social network, or are located closer to the geographic center of interaction, choose higher levels of interactions in equilibrium. As a result, the level...
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Are Girls the Fairer Sex in India? Revisiting Intra-Household Allocation of Education Expenditure
Azam, Mehtabul - 2011
This paper revisits the issue of the intra-household allocation of education expenditure with the recently available India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural areas. In addition to the traditional Engel method, the paper utilizes a Hurdle model to...
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Labour Turnover and the Spatial Distribution of Unemployment : A Panel Data Analysis Using Employment Registry Data
Pastore, Francesco - 2012
heterogeneity of the analysed local labour markets. It is also robust to the use of different panel estimators as well as for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096147