How Important is Access to Jobs? Old Question - Improved Answer

By Olof Åslund, John Östh, Yves Zenou. Social Science Research Network, 2010

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We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee dispersal policy to get exogenous variation in individual locations. Using very detailed data on the exact location of all residences and workplaces in Sweden, we find that having been placed in a location with poor job access in 1990-91 adversely affected employment in 1999. Doubling the number of jobs in the initial location in 1990-91 is associated with 2.9 percentage points higher employment probability in 1999. The analysis suggests that residential sorting leads to underestimation of the impact of job access.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Ethnic Identity and Labor-Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Europe (2011, unknown): “Sweden, which has a very high trade-union density and a relatively rigid labour market, is a good example of such a case since immigrants have one of the lowest employment rates in Europe (see, e.g., Åslund et al., 2010).”
Mismatch Unemployment and the Geography of Job Search (2018, background): “, 2013), spatial mismatch (Patacchini and Zenou, 2005; Hellerstein et al., 2008; Boustan and Margo, 2009; Åslund et al., 2010), or the impact of place-based policies (Neumark and Kolko, 2010; Ham et al.”
Place-based tax exemptions and displacement effects: An evaluation of the Zones Franches Urbaines program☆ (2013, background): “3Using a Swedish dispersal policy of refugees, Åslund et al. (2010) provide evidence that being located further from jobs adversely a ects employment probability In the case of France, Gobillon et al. (2011) show that spatial di erences contributes to explain more than half of the di erences of…”
Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy (2009, background): “Within larger regions, immigrants tend to be concentrated to particular areas, usually situated in the suburbs (Åslund et al. 2006).”