The spatial distribution of households and firms, or urban spatial structure, is a core element of the study of urban economics and the crucial determinant of commuting patterns. This paper examines developments in the analysis of urban spatial structure and commuting that are related to the urban labour market that is the analysis of labour supply and labour demand in a spatial context. These ...

The empirical evidence on the economic impacts of diversity is mixed. Many studies in literature present context dependent and data driven results which are challenging to reconcile with each other. This paper offers a systematic synthesis findings innovation, productivity, labour market. It presents structured framework takes spatial scale analysis papers as reference understand inconsistency ...

Hellerstein and Neumark (1999) developed a very straightforward method to detect wage discrimination using matched employer-employee data. However it may produce biased estimates whenever there is not perfect competition in the labor market or when the discriminated group is segregated into good or bad firms. The purpose of this paper is to develop a test for wage discrimination that completes ...

Post-Socialist International Migration: The Case of China-to-South Korea Ethnic Labour Migration This paper examines an atypical south-north labour migration that emerged in the postsocialist international migration system: China-to-South Korea ethnic labour migration. In the past two decades, South Korea has experienced an unprecedented increase in the arrival of foreign labour. The majority o...

This lecture argues that mental health is a major factor of production. It is the biggest single influence on life satisfaction, with mental health eight years earlier a more powerful explanatory factor than current income. Mental health also affects earnings and educational success. But, most strikingly, it affects employment and physical health. In advanced countries mental health problems ar...

Ghazala Azmat, Lena Hensvik and Olof Rosenqvist Azmat is a Professor of Economics at Sciences Po (ghazala.azmat{at}sciencespo.fr). Uppsala University. Researcher the Institute for Evaluation Labour Market Education Policy (IFAU).

Past research on labour market skill shortages indicates that whether respondents report skill shortages or hard-to-fill vacancies do so for widely different reasons. Nevertheless, there is some consensus that skill shortages analysis needs to examine such shortages within the context of the local labour market in order to understand the labour market dynamics and structural factors that affect...