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Employment in Black Urban Labor Markets : Problems and Solutions

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2011

Blacks in the United States are poorer than whites and have much lower employment rates. "Place-based" policies seek to improve the labor markets in which blacks - especially low-income urban blacks - tend to reside. We first review the literature on spatial mismatch, which provides much of the...

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The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets : American Cities During the Great Depression

Boustan, Leah Platt - 2007

During the Great Depression, as today, migrants were accused of taking jobs and crowding relief rolls. At the time, protest concerned internal migrants rather than the foreign born. We investigate the effect of net migration on local labor markets, instrumenting for migrant flows to a...

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Is Occupational Licensing a Barrier to Interstate Migration?

Johnson, Janna E. - 2017

Occupational licensure, one of the most significant labor market regulations in the United States, may restrict the interstate movement of workers. We analyze the interstate migration of 22 licensed occupations. Using an empirical strategy that controls for unobservable characteristics that...

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Guaranteed Employment in Rural India : Intra-Household Labor and Resource Allocation Consequences

García, Jorge Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

I investigate the intra-household labor and resource allocation consequences of an employment guarantee targeting rural households in India. The guarantee insures household earnings, replacing women as added workers and shutting down a motive for saving. Despite sizable program-job take-up, the...

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The Draw of Home : How Teachers' Preferences for Proximity Disadvantage Urban Schools

Boyd, Donald - 2003

This paper explores a little understood aspect of labor markets, their spatial geography. Using data from New York State, we find teacher labor markets to be geographically very small. Teachers express preferences to teach close to where they grew up and, controlling for proximity, they prefer...

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Declining Migration within the U.S : The Role of the Labor Market

Molloy, Raven - 2014

Interstate migration has decreased steadily since the 1980s. We show that this trend is not primarily related to demographic and socioeconomic factors, but instead appears to be connected to a concurrent secular decline in labor market transitions. We explore a number of reasons for the declines...

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Local Labor Markets

Moretti, Enrico - 2010

I examine the causes and the consequences of differences in labor market outcomes across local labor markets within a country. The focus is on a long-run general equilibrium setting, where workers and firms are free to move across localities and local prices adjust to maintain the spatial...

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Labor Misallocation Across Firms and Regions

Heise, Sebastian; Porzio, Tommaso - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We develop a frictional labor market model with multiple regions and heterogeneous firms to study how frictions impeding labor mobility across space affect the joint allocation of labor across firms and regions. Bringing the model to matched employer-employee data from Germany, we find that...

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Costly Labor Adjustment : General Equilibrium Effects of China's Employment Regulations

Cooper, Russell - 2013

reduced China's annual growth rate by 1.1 percentage points over the 1998-2007 period …

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"Golden Ages" : A Tale of the Labor Markets in China and the United States

Fang, Hanming; Qiu, Xincheng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study the labor markets in China and the United States, the two largest economies in the world, by examining the … U.S., but decreased sharply from 55 to around 35 in China; second, the age-specific earnings grew drastically in China … similar in the U.S., but differed substantially in China. We propose and empirically implement a decomposition framework to …

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