Åslund, Olof (contributor); Östh, John (contributor); … - 2006
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 …