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Urban public works in spatial equilibrium: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia

Franklin, Simon; Imbertand, Clément; Abebe, Girum; … - 2023

This paper evaluates a large urban public works program randomly rolled out across neighborhoods of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We find that the program increased public employment and reduced private labor supply among beneficiaries and improved local amenities in treated locations. We then combine...

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Matching frictions and distorted beliefs: Evidence from a job fair experiment

Abebe, Girum; Caria, Stefano A.; Fafchamps, Marcel; … - 2023

We evaluate the impacts of a randomized job-fair intervention in which jobseekers and employers can meet at low cost. The intervention generates few hires, but it lowers participants' expectations and causes both firms and workers to invest more in search as predicted by a theoretical model;...

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Do co-ethnic commuters disseminate labor market information? Evidence from geocoded register data

Klaesson, Johan; Öner, Özge; Pennerstorfer, Dieter - 2023

This article provides causal evidence of the significant role ethnic networks play in facilitating labor market integration by reducing information frictions. Using full population geocoded employer-employee matched Swedish register data, we investigate how co-ethnic commuters can influence the...

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Unequal transition: The widening wealth gap amidst China's rapid growth

Jiang, Yangtian; Zheng, Yu; Zhu, Lijun - 2023

We propose a quantitative theory of wealth creation and distribution during China's transitional growth from the early 1990s, when barriers to setting up private businesses, trading housing, and migrating from rural to urban areas are struck down. In response to the changing economic...

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Migrants, ethnicity and strategic assimilation

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2006

Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers to trade such as information costs, risk, and uncertainty by building trust and by substituting for the difficulty of enforcing contracts internationally. We study networks which emerge from the interaction (i) between migrants and...

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The role of housing in labor reallocation

Davis, Morris A.; Fisher, Jonas D. M.; Veracierto, Marcelo - 2010

This paper builds a dynamic general equilibrium model of cities and uses it to analyze the role of local housing markets and moving costs in determining the character and extent of labor reallocation in the US economy. Labor reallocation in the model is driven by idiosyncratic city-specific...

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Long-term benefits from temporary migration: Does the gender of the migrant matter?

DeSilva, Sanjaya - 2013

the long-term impact of temporary labor migration. We use a propensity score matching (PSM) framework to compare … outcomes. Our results show that households that send women abroad are relatively poor and utilize migration to catch up with …

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Labour market programmes and geographical mobility: migration and commuting among programme participants and openly unemployed

Lindgren, Urban; Westerlund, Olle - 2003

We study migration and commuting among participants in labour market programmes and individuals in open unemployment … the relatively lower probability of migration. Hence, our results indicate that different labour market programmes are … entity, we find interregional commuting to be relatively more important than migration as a means of geographical labour …

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Urbanization in China and how urban housing demand can be met

Gottschalch, Sören - 2013

population. This paper contributes to the discussion with illuminating the main drivers of urbanization: (i) migration and (ii …

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The effects of international migration on native workers' unionization in Austria

Antón, José-Ignacio; Böheim, René; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2016

We analyze the effects of increased immigration of foreign workers on the unionization rates of native workers in Austrian firms over the period 2002-2012. Our results suggest that lower union density of natives' in firms with more foreign workers is driven not by natives leaving unions, but by...

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