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When worker commutes are suboptimal, quits and moves are related. Either a quit, a move, or both can achieve an optimal commute. However, with fixed costs to quitting and moving, a quit or move alone is more likely than both together. Payroll records of a firm which relocated from the central...
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reductions in commuting time between regions on the commuting decisions of workers and their choices regarding where to live and …
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model that incorporates spatial linkages in goods markets (trade) and factor markets (commuting and migration). We show that … local employment elasticities differ substantially across U.S. counties and commuting zones in ways that are not well … explained by standard empirical controls but are captured by commuting measures. We provide independent evidence for these …
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with jobs in different commuting zones (CZs) and different CZ-industry pairs. About half of the variation in mean wages …
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We examine variation in local wage levels, housing costs, and commuting costs for 2071 areas covering the United States … within and across metropolitan areas. In an equilibrium model of residential and workplace choice, we use these measures to …
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We contrast the spatial mismatch hypothesis with what we term the racial mismatch hypothesis - that the problem is not a lack of jobs, per se, where blacks live, but a lack of jobs where blacks live into which blacks are hired. We first report new evidence on the spatial mismatch hypothesis,...
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The spatial mismatch hypothesis posits that employment decentralization isolated urban blacks from work opportunities. This paper focuses on one large employer that has remained in the central city over the twentieth century - the U.S. Postal Service. We find that blacks substitute towards...
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Education in Denmark is freely available. Despite near equal teacher salaries and per-pupil school expenditure across …
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This paper describes measurement of a self-employment rate and the important role the agricultural sector plays in any analysis of the determinants of self-employment. The determinants of the self-employment rate are modeled using a panel of 23 countries for the period 1966-1996. A similar...
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We study the effects of climate change on labor and capital reallocation across regions, sectors and firms. We use newly digitized administrative reports on extreme weather events occurred in Brazil during the last two decades and a meteorological measure of excess dryness relative to historical...
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