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considers many different aspects of the agglomeration — labour market relationship, including turnover, learning, matching, and … agglomeration and uncertainty. There is also evidence of on-the-job learning that is consistent with theories of labour pooling …, there is a general positive relationship of turnover to local population density, which is consistent with theories of …
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considers many different aspects of the agglomeration labor market relationship, including turnover, learning, matching, and … theories of agglomeration and uncertainty. The paper also finds evidence of onthejob learning that is consistent with theories … industries. The paper reports a general positive relationship of turnover to local population density, which is consistent with …
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Policy makers at all levels of government believe that one of the key drivers of local economic growth is new businesses. Therefore, governments design policy with the intention of attracting businesses with the hopes that this will create future growth in struggling areas. Over the past few...
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agglomeration. The nature of those benefits remains unclear, however. In this Paper we take advantage of a new dataset to quantify … the role of one of the main contenders: the matching of workers and jobs. Using individual level data for two large US … states we show that thicker urban labour markets are associated with more assortative matching between workers and firms …
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agglomeration. However, the nature of those benefits remains unclear. In this paper we take advantage of a new dataset to quantify … the role of one of the main contenders - the matching of workers and jobs. Using individual level data for two large US … states we show that thicker urban labour markets are associated with more assortative matching between workers and firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745550
Higher ability workers benefit more from bigger cities while housing costs there are higher for everyone, and yet there is little sorting on ability. A possible explanation is that young individuals have an imperfect assessment of their ability, and, when they learn about it, early decisions...
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Higher ability workers benefit more from bigger cities while housing costs there are higher for everyone, and yet there is little sorting on ability. A possible explanation is that young individuals have an imperfect assessment of their ability, and, when they learn about it, early decisions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126686
In this paper, we test the hypothesis of a wage curve against a Phillips curve for Spain, within a dynamic framework that allows for both of these, and for more general alternatives. To this end, we use data from the European Community Household Panel, providing micro-information for the period...
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The extent to which socioeconomic (dis)advantage is transmitted between generations is receiving increasing attention from academics and policymakers. However, few studies have investigated whether there is a spatial dimension to this intergenerational transmission of (dis)advantage. Drawing...
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Studies of neighbourhood effects typically investigate the instantaneous effect of point-in-time measures of neighbourhood poverty on individual outcomes. It has been suggested that it is not solely the current neighbourhood, but also the neighbourhood history of an individual that is important...
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