Job Search in Thick Markets: Evidence from Italy

Sabrina Lucia Di Addario ()

No 605, Temi di discussione (Economic working papers) from Bank of Italy, Economic Research Department

Abstract: I analyze empirically the effects of both urban and industrial agglomeration on menÂ’s and womenÂ’s search behavior and on the efficiency of matching. The analysis is based on a unique panel data set from the Italian Labor Force Survey micro-data, which covers 520 randomly drawn Local Labor Market Areas (66 percent 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, and I test whether these are affected by urbanization and/or industry localization. The main results indicate that both urbanization and industry localization raise job seekersÂ’ chances of finding employment (conditional on having searched), but neither of them affects non-employed individualsÂ’ search behavior.

Keywords: Labor market transitions; search intensity; urbanization; industry localization. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J64 R00 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-lab and nep-ure
Date: 2006-12
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Working Paper: Job Search in Thick Markets: Evidence from Italy (2005)
Working Paper: Job Search in Thick Markets: Evidence from Italy (2005)
Working Paper: Job Search in Thick Markets: Evidence from Italy (2005)
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