The effect of location on finding a job in the Paris region

Laurent Gobillon, Thierry Magnac and Harris Selod ()

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Abstract: Do spatial differences in unemployment duration reflect residential sorting or a true local effect? Focusing on the 1300 municipalities of the Paris region, we apply a methodology that disentangles individual and unspecified municipality effects. Estimating a proportional hazard model stratified by municipality and recovering a survival function for each municipality purged of individual observed heterogeneity, we show that local and individual characteristics add up in their contribution to unemployment duration. While only 30% of the spatial disparities in unemployment duration are explained by individual characteristics, 70% of the remaining disparities are captured by local indicators, mainly correlated with residential segregation.

Keywords: Unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-12
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Published in Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (7), pp.1079-1112. ⟨10.1002/jae.1168⟩

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DOI: 10.1002/jae.1168

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