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We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...
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We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...
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We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee … affected employment in 1999. Doubling the number of jobs in the initial location in 1990-91 is associated with 2.9 percentage … points higher employment probability in 1999. The analysis suggests that residential sorting leads to underestimation of the …
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