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来源

来源 JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.70,P.303-318

语言

英文

关键字

J64;R00;J60;Labor market transitions;Search intensity;Urbanization;Industry localization

作者单位

Economic Research Unit, Bank of Italy, Roma Branch, via 20 Settembre, 97/e, 00187 Rome, Italy"}]},{"#name":"correspondence","$":{"id":"cor1;Economic Research Unit, Bank of Italy, Roma Branch, via 20 Settembre, 97/e, 00187 Rome, Italy"}]}},"correspondences":{"cor1":{"#name":"correspondence","$":{"id":"cor1

摘要

I analyze empirically the effects of urban and industrial agglomeration on both search behavior and the efficiency of matching. The analysis is based on a unique panel data set from the Italian Labor Force Survey micro-data, covering 520 randomly drawn Local Labor Market Areas (66% of the total) over the four quarters of 2002. I compute transition probabilities from non-employment to employment by jointly estimating the probability of searching and the probability of finding a job conditional on having searched. I then test whether these are affected by market size, industrial variety and/or industry specialization. The main results indicate that market size and industry-specialization raise job seekers’ chances of finding employment (conditional on having searched), while industrial variety is not significantly different from zero. Finally, the effect of agglomeration on non-employed individuals’ search behavior cannot be significantly distinguished from zero.