Local Labor Markets in a New Economic Geography Model
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Local Labor Markets
I examine the causes and the consequences of differences in labor market outcomes across local labor markets within a country. The focus is on a long-run general equilibrium setting, where workers and firms are free to move across localities and local prices adjust to maintain the spatial equilibrium. In particular, I develop a tractable general equilibrium framework of local labor markets with...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Review of Regional Studies
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1553-0892,0048-749X
DOI: 10.52324/001c.8042