Local Labor Market Scale, Search Duration, and Re-Employment Match Quality for U.S. Displaced Workers

Geographic space is an important friction preventing the instantaneous matching of unemployed workers to job vacancies. Cities reduce spatial frictions by decreasing the average distance between potential match partners. Owing to these search efficiencies, theories of agglomeration predict that unem...

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Main Author: Wilkin, Kelly R
Format: Others
Published: Digital Archive @ GSU 2012
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Online Access:http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/econ_diss/89
http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1089&context=econ_diss