This paper applies the Bond and Coombes (2007) algorithm to construct Travel-to-Work Areas for Belgium. We study how these functional labor markets evolved between 1981 and 2001 and find that the number of distinct regional labor markets decreased over time. For 2007, sector-specic...

This paper derives a gravity equation for commuter flows from a simple spatial labor market model, and uses it to identify the effect of regional borders on commuting. This structural approach allows us to identify the relevant control variables and sources of potential omitted variable bias....

This paper analyzes the role of costly spatial interaction between regional labor mar- kets in the matching process. We adapt Shimer and Smith's (2000) assignment model with search frictions to an economy with two connected regions. We then show that the existence of labor mobility costs will...