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Paving the Way to Development : Costly Migration and Labor Market Integration

Morten, Melanie - 2016

understanding migration decisions, focusing on the costs of migrating. We construct and then estimate a spatial equilibrium model … where mobility is determined not only by idiosyncratic tastes, but also by moving costs that are origin … network caused by the construction of a capital city to identify the bilateral costs of moving between two regions. The mean …

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Local Labor Markets

Moretti, Enrico - 2010

I examine the causes and the consequences of differences in labor market outcomes across local labor markets within a country. The focus is on a long-run general equilibrium setting, where workers and firms are free to move across localities and local prices adjust to maintain the spatial...

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Trade and the Topography of the Spatial Economy

Allen, Treb - 2013

estimate the topography of trade costs, productivities, amenities and the strength of spillovers in the United States. We find …

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The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets : American Cities During the Great Depression

Boustan, Leah Platt - 2007

During the Great Depression, as today, migrants were accused of taking jobs and crowding relief rolls. At the time, protest concerned internal migrants rather than the foreign born. We investigate the effect of net migration on local labor markets, instrumenting for migrant flows to a...

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Pattern in Regional Labor Market Adjustment : The United States vs. Japan

Montgomery, Edward B. - 2022

In this paper I examine regional labor market behavior in the United States and Japan. In contrast with the picture at the aggregate level, Japanese labor markets at the prefectural (regional) level appear to exhibit substantially more persistence than state level labor markets in the United...

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Long-Range Growth : Economic Development in the Global Network of Air Links

Campante, Filipe R. - 2016

We study the impact of international long-distance flights on the global spatial allocation of economic activity. To identify causal effects, we exploit variation due to regulatory and technological constraints which give rise to a discontinuity in connectedness between cities at a distance of...

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Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms

Suárez Serrato, Juan Carlos - 2014

This paper estimates the incidence of state corporate taxes on the welfare of workers, landowners, and firm owners using variation in state corporate tax rates and apportionment rules. We develop a spatial equilibrium model with imperfectly mobile firms and workers. Firm owners may earn profits...

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Monopsony in Spatial Equilibrium

Kahn, Matt - 2019

An emerging labor economics literature studies the consequences of firms exercising market power in local labor markets. These monopsony models have implications for trends in earnings inequality. The extent of this market power is likely to vary across local labor markets. In choosing what...

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Temporary Migration and Endogenous Risk Sharing in Village India

Morten, Melanie - 2016

, the consumption-equivalent gain from reducing migration costs is 18.9 percentage points lower. Third, I introduce a rural …

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Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions

Lewis, Ethan - 2014

In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more easily identified on local economies. The reason is that their...

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