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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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Potential, prizes and performance : testing tournament theory with professional tennis data

Sunde, Uwe - 2003

This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven tournaments, where the … contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion; this is a prediction from agency theory that has not been … underlies any agency theory about elimination tournaments, and has been empirically tested in other contexts. The evidence …

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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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Spatial Mismatch, Search Effort and Urban Spatial Structure

Smith, Tony E.; Zenou, Yves - 2003

The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism for the spatial mismatch hypothesis. Spatial mismatch can here be the result of optimizing behavior on the part of the labor market participants. In particular, the unemployed can choose low amounts of search and long-term unemployment if they...

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Hobbes to Rousseau : Inequality, Institutions, and Development

Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe; Sunde, Uwe - 2005

We analyze the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the process of economic development. Favorable economic institutions ensure the appropriability of rents in form of a state of law. We study the conditions under which a state of law can be...

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Space, Search and Efficiency

Wasmer, Etienne; Zenou, Yves - 2000

We investigate the role of spatial frictions in search equilibrium unemployment. For that, we develop a model of the labor market in which workers? location in an agglomeration depends on commuting costs, the endogenous price of land and the value of job search and employment. We first show that...

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

Wauthy, Xavier; Zenou, Yves - 2001

We consider a continuum of workers ranked according to their abilities to acquire education and two firms with different technologies that imperfectly compete in wages to attract these workers. Once employed, each worker bears an education cost proportional to his/her initial ability, this cost...

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How Do Firms Redline Workers?

Zenou, Yves - 2002

In a city where individuals endogenously choose their residential location, firms determine their spatial efficiency wage and a geographical red line beyond which they do not recruit workers. This is because workers experiencing longer commuting trips provide lower effort levels than those...

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Human Capital Formation, Life Expectancy and the Process of Economic Development

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2002

This paper presents a non-Malthusian theory of long-term development We model the interplay between the process of …

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