Labor Market Pooling, Outsourcing and Labor Contracts Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from Chamberlinian externalities. Firms may also protect ...

Labor Market Effects of Immigration: Evidence from Neighborhood Data This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities of highand low-skilled natives. Employing an instrumental variable strategy and utiliz...

This paper estimates the long-term impact of growing up in better neighborhoods and attending schools on educational attainment. First, I use a spatial regression-discontinuity design to estimate school effects. Second, study students who move across Montreal during childhood causal effect area (total exposure effects). find large effects for both dimensions. Combining research designs decompos...

We review developments in research on within-country migration, focusing internal migration the United States. begin by describing approaches to modeling individuals’ decisions and equilibrium outcomes across local areas. Next, we summarize evidence regarding impact of outcomes, implications for labor market adjustment, interactions between housing markets. Finally, discuss efficacy policies ai...

With the advent of high-quality surveys in cosmology the full three-point correlation function will be a valuable statistic for describing structure formation models. It contains information on cosmological parameters and detailed halo properties that cannot be extracted from the two-point correlation function. We use the halo clustering model to analytically calculate the three-point correlati...

This paper estimates intertemporal labor supply responses to two-year long income tax holidays staggered across Swiss cantons. Cantons shifted from an system based on the previous two years’ a standard annual pay as you earn system, leaving years of untaxed. We find significant but quantitatively very small wage earnings with elasticity 0.025 overall. High earners and especially self-employed d...

Context. Direct measurement of oxygen abundance for metal-rich galaxies from electron temperature is difficult or impossible since temperature-sensitive auroral lines generally become too weak to be measured. Aims. We aim to derive the electron temperature (Te) in the gas of metal-rich star-forming galaxies, which can be obtained from their ratios of auroral lines [O ]λλ7320,7330 to nebular l...

We develop an urban equilibrium job search model with employed and unemployed individuals where residential mobility of the unemployed is restricted. We assume a standard mono-centric model (firms are located in one location), but allow for imperfect labour markets. In contrast to models with perfect labour markets, the model predicts that the employed are only partially compensated for commuti...

We model group formation as a response to relative deprivation. We employ a simple measure of relative deprivation. We show that the process of deprivationinduced self-selection into groups reaches a unique steady state. We study the social welfare implications of the deprivation-induced process of group formation and show that when individuals are left to pursue their betterment the resulting ...

We offer a unified analysis of the growth of low-skill service occupations between 1980 and 2005 and the concurrent polarization of US employment and wages. We hypothesize that polarization stems from the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over specialization, and the falling cost of automating routine, codifiable job tasks. Applying a spatial equilibrium model, we co...