entrepreneurs for returnees but matter for non-migrants. -- Social capital ; entrepreneurship ; selection ; savings …

The Todaro Paradox states that policies aimed at reducing urban unemployment are bound to backfire: they will raise … rather than reduce urban unemployment. The aim of this paper is to reexamine this paradox in the context of efficiency wage … and search-matching models. For that, we study a policy that consists in decreasing the urban unemployment benefit. In an …

unemployment benefits lead to more job destruction. -- Job search ; commuting costs ; wage distribution ; urban land use …

The Todaro Paradox states that policies aimed at reducing urban unemployment are bound to backfire: they will raise … rather than reduce urban unemployment. The aim of this paper is to reexamine this paradox in the context of efficiency wage … and search-matching models. For that, we study a policy that consists in decreasing the urban unemployment benefit. In an …

We study the role of unemployment in the context of the endogeneous formation of a monocentric city in which firms set …" between location and jobs because the further away from jobs the unemployed, the larger the level of unemployment. Finally, we … commuting costs of all workers) reduces urban unemployment, increases utilities of all workers but raises inequality, whereas a …