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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/10010221545
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Regional equilibrium unemployment theory at the age of the internet
Lutgen, Vanessa; Van der Linden, Bruno - 2015
This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy with matching frictions, where workers and jobs are free to move and wages are bargained over. Job-seekers choose between searching locally or searching in both regions. Search-matching externalities are amplified by the latter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515473
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Matching worker skills to job tasks in the Netherlands: Sorting into cities for better careers
Kok, Suzanne - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 2, pp. 1-36
Matches between workers and jobs are better in thick labour markets than in thin ones. This paper measures match quality by the gap between worker skills and their job tasks in the Netherlands. The smaller the gap, the better the match between skills and tasks. The measured gaps are 14 percent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409603
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Knowledge Exchange, Matching, and Agglomeration
Berliant, Marcus; III, Robert R. Reed; Wang, Ping - EconWPA - 2004
innovations. We demonstrate that the extent of agglomeration has significant implications for the patterns of information flows in … economies. By simultaneously determining the patterns of knowledge exchange and the population agglomeration of an economy, we … find that population agglomeration is generally accompanied by higher growth. The main findings remain qualitatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556221
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Dynamic Urban Models: Agglomeration and Growth
Berliant, Marcus; Wang, Ping - EconWPA - 2004
, avenues for future research are explored. Correlations between agglomeration and growth in the various models and data are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118970
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Matching worker skills to job tasks in the Netherlands : sorting into cities for better careers
Kok, Suzanne - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 2, pp. 1-36
Matches between workers and jobs are better in thick labour markets than in thin ones. This paper measures match quality by the gap between worker skills and their job tasks in the Netherlands. The smaller the gap, the better the match between skills and tasks. The measured gaps are 14 percent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251192