This paper explores the implications of mobility frictions in local labor markets on aggregate regional sorting … digital platform eco-system. We hypothesize that in local labor markets where mobility frictions are high, an excess supply of … mobility frictions, more frequent job turnover in a location leads to a significantly stronger association between local wage …

mobility costs without any prior assumption about the latter or local distributions of job offers. Our structural model … introduces job mobility costs, spatial coupling and arbitration between pairs of geographical areas on a forward-looking basis …. Costs are defined in a broad sense and hamper job mobility, thus benefiting from remote job opportunities. Distributions of …