Spatial Mismatch, Search Effort and Urban Spatial Structure
By Tony E. Smith, Yves Zenou. Social Science Research Network, 2003
115 citations recorded by the source corpus.
The aim of this Paper is to provide a new mechanism for the spatial mismatch hypothesis. Spatial mismatch can here be the result of optimizing behaviour on the part of the labour market participants. In particular, the unemployed can choose low amounts of search and long-term unemployment if they reside far away from jobs. They choose voluntarily not to relocate close to jobs because the short-run gains (low land rent and large housing consumption) are big enough compared to the long-run gains of residing near jobs (higher probability of finding a job).
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics
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- How Important is Access to Jobs? Old Question - Improved Answer (2010, unknown): “Among the possible mechanisms are: (i) Workers’ job search efficiency may decrease with distance to jobs and, in particular, workers residing far away from jobs may have few incentives to search intensively (Smith & Zenou, 2003).”
- Spatial Dependence in Local Unemployment Rates (2007, unknown): “…= Ui,t−1+λt−1 (1− Ui,t−1)−m0 M (Si,t−1, Vi,t−1) Si,t−1 Uii,t−1−m0 M (Sj,t−1, Vj,t−1) Sj,t−1 Uij,t−1 (8) 3For studies with spatial search intensities, see, in particular, Burda and Profit (1996), Burgess and Profit (2001), Smith and Zenou (2003), Wasmer and Zenou (2006), Patacchini and Zenou (2006).”
- Residential Segregation and Unemployment: The Case of Brussels (2008, background): “The intensity of the search effort may also decrease with distance from job opportunities, for instance if workers residing far away from job centers face lower rents and thus feel less pressured to quickly find a job (as in Smith and Zenou, 2003).”