In this paper, the authors estimate interregional earnings differentials using the May-June matched 1979 Current Population Survey. Several biases that may have been present in earlier studies are corrected by controlling for establishment size and job tenure, and by using a nonmetropolitan...

Following permanent layoffs most women search for and secure new jobs, but some withdraw from the labor force. In this paper, the authors develop a joint model of the choice to engage in post-displacement job search and the distribution of unemployment duration for searchers, and estimate the...