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The Time Pattern of Internal Migration: Human Capital Meets Job Matching
Allen, Jeremiah - In: The Review of Regional Studies 33 (2003) 3, pp. 284-95
A human capital model of migration that includes location-specific capital and job search is integrated with job-matching …
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Language and urban labor market segmentation: Theory and evidence
Li, Qiang - In: Journal of Urban Economics 74 (2013) C, pp. 27-46
I propose a language theory of labor market segmentation. People of different language origins form separate urban labor submarkets and can switch between submarkets. Two types of wage differentials emerge, namely the Within-Labor-Market Wage Gap and the Within-Language-Group Wage Gap. The...
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City Air or City Markets: Productivity Gains in Urban Areas
Krupka, Douglas James - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number of researchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills in cities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result, however, is that...
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The spatial sorting and matching of skills and firms
MION, Giordano; NATICCHIONI, Paolo - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2006
attributed to aggregate proxies of agglomeration externalities. Our data further support the assortative matching hypothesis …, that is'good' workers match on the labor market with 'good' firms, and we further show that assortative matching is not … driven by a co-location of workers and firms of similar quality. Finally, we point out that this assortative matching is …
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The spatial sorting and matching of skills and firms
Mion, Giordano; Naticchioni, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
attributed to aggregate proxies of agglomeration externalities. Our data further support the assortative matching hypothesis … matching is negatively related to local market size. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619447
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Regional labor markets, network externalities and migration: the case of German reunification
Uhlig, Harald - 2007
Fifteen years after German reunification, the facts about slow regional convergence have born out the prediction of Barro (1991), except that migration out of East Germany has not slowed down. I document that in particular the 18-29 year old are leaving East Germany, and that the emigration has...
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Modelling migration and regional labour markets : an application of the new economic geography model RHOMOLOI
Brandsma, Andries; Kancs, D'Artis; Persyn, Damiaan - 2013
The present paper describes the modelling of regional labour markets in the newly developed dynamic spatial general equilibrium model RHOMOLO, where the labour market equilibrium is determined by firms' labour demand, a wage-curve determining unemployment, and interregional labour migration. The...
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Unemployment and willingness to accept job offers: results of a factorial survey experiment
Abraham, Martin; Auspurg, Katrin; Bähr, Sebastian; … - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 46 (2013) 4, pp. 283-305
Matching individuals to jobs is a fundamental problem in any labour market. This paper focuses on job characteristics …
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Employment Status, Endogenous Regional Mobility, and Spatial Dependencies in Labor Markets
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2002
This paper investigates spatial correlation in the matching process of vacant jobs and job seekers. The importance of … clusters of regions of particularly intense interregional matching, and examine the effects of German re-unification. After …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262709
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Language training for unemployed non-natives: Who benefits the most?
Kivi, Laura Helena; Sõmer, Marko; Kallaste, Epp - In: Baltic Journal of Economics 20 (2020) 1, pp. 34-58
training on employment probability and labour income is estimated by combining propensity score matching with coarsened exact … matching. The impact on the probability of being employed is found to be positive after the end of the lock-in effect. Two …
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