We present a model that focuses on the links between location and educational choices in South African cities. By comparing the Apartheid city (in which both chooling and land use are restricted on the basis of race) and the post-Apartheid city (in which there no such restrictions), we show that...

This paper focuses on the role of social interactions in the location decision of workers and on the consequences of this decision on labor market outcomes. More precisely, there are three categories of workers: whites, the ethnic minority workers who try to abide as much as they can by the...

We investigate the role of spatial frictions in search equilibrium unemployment. For that, we develop a model of the labor market in which workers' location in an agglomeration depends on commuting costs, the endogenous price of land and the value of job search and employment. We first show that...