a minimum of three markets: land, labor and capital. I study the interaction between the land and the labor markets … carefully. Standard theory assumes that when firms decentralize, firms located away from the Central Business District (CBD … left essentially unchanged.I refute this argument on the grounds that it does not hold in a model with a full labor market …

This study addresses the impact of Mexican illegal immigration on the U.S. labor market. It constitutes a first step … towards developing rigorous structural econometric models that empirically analyze undocumented labor force dynamics …. Structural estimation of the labor supply and the participation decision of illegal Mexican immigration requires the solution of …

negotiating with broadcasters.The second essay extends the bargaining theory developed in the first essay to multiple …

quality of available rental housing. A model of the labor market is presented in which the same kind of adjustment can take …

affecting the opportunity cost of labor. Our results indicate that the strategy of intervention matters. We show that third …

-domain techniques can provide. There are three major questions I pursue. The first is why equilibrium search models of labor market … Granger causality test. Finally, the third question I address investigates the connections between labor productivity growth …

The dissertation offers an analysis of the labor reallocation process in Japan and sheds light on its relationship with … statistics of job reallocation rates among relatively large Japanese firms. The main results show that job reallocation follows a … during this period, mainly through exits by relatively productive firms.The second chapter investigates the labor input and …