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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 … job centers. In a decentralized economy job-seekers do not internalize a composition externality they impose on all the …
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On the Road (Again): Commuting and Local Employment Elasticities in Germany
Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael P. - 2019
commuting developed in Monte et al. (2018) to address the workings of local labor markets in Germany. One key contribution … commuting measures have very little predictive power for these general equilibrium elasticities when the housing share is small … housing share has only little influence on the welfare effects and location patterns of counterfactual commuting cost …
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Regional Equilibrium Unemployment Theory at the Age of the Internet
Lutgen, Vanessa; Van der Linden, Bruno - 2013
This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy where homogeneous workers and jobs are free to move and the housing market clears. Because of the Internet, searching for a job in another region without first migrating there is nowadays much simpler than in the past....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329201
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Regional Equilibrium Unemployment Theory at the Age of the Internet
Lutgen, Vanessa; Van der Linden, Bruno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy where homogeneous workers and jobs are free to move and the housing market clears. Because of the Internet, searching for a job in another region without first migrating there is nowadays much simpler than in the past....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720081
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Modelling the effects of immigration on regional economic performance and the wage distribution: a CGE analysis of three EU regions
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Roberts, Deborah; Balamou, Eudokia - 2009
The paper uses a regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse the effects of immigration on three small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration scenarios are assessed. In the first, total labour supply is affected. In the second, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269548
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Some evidence on the nature of urbanization economies
Krupka, Douglas J. - 2009
Urbanization economies - the effects on productivity and utility created endogenously by larger cities - are a fundamental component of both the economic geography of modern societies and the perpetuation of innovation and economic growth at a national level. Cities account for vast majorities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269597
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Economic reform, informal-formal sector linkages and intervention in the informal sector in developing countries: A paradox
Arvin-Rad, Hassan; Basu, Arnab K.; Willumsen, Maria - 2010
Within a general equilibrium framework of a developing economy with a foreign owned factor of production, this paper questions whether the informal-formal sector relationship is procyclical/ complementary - expansion or contraction in one necessarily implies an expansion or contraction in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274701
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A Pure Theory of Population Distribution When Preferences Are Ordinal
Stark, Holger; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2023
We model an environment in which individuals prefer to be in a space in which their rank is higher, be it a social space, a geographical space, a work environment, or any other comparison sphere which we refer to in this paper, and without loss of generality, as a region. When the individuals...
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Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity
Teulings, Coen; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; de Groot, Henri L. F. - 2014
, commuting behavior, wages, land use and land rents for 3000 ZIP-codes in the Netherlands and for three levels of education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398358
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Differences in quality of life estimates using rents and home values
Winters, John V. - 2012
Quality of life differences across areas can be measured by differences in real wages where real wages are computed as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences involves several important issues, including how housing prices should be measured. Previous...
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