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Inefficient Equilibrium Unemployment in a Duocentric Economy with Matching Frictions

Lehmann, Etienne; Montero Ledezma, Paola L.; Van der … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and search-matching frictions to deal with the spatial mismatch … changes in the workforce distribution have non-negligible effects on unemployment rates, wages and net output. …

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The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999: A Cohort-Based Analysis

Weinberger, Catherine; Kuhn, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Using Census and Current Population Survey data spanning 1959 through 1999, we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men’s and women’s age-earnings profiles, versus changes in relative earnings...

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