The Effect of Location on Finding a Job in the Greater Paris Area

Laurent Gobillon, Thierry Magnac and Harris Selod ()

No 2848, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalities in the Ile-de-France region (Paris Greater Area). In order to characterize these imbalances, we estimate a proportional hazard model stratified by municipality on an exhaustive dataset of all unemployment spells starting in the first semester of 1996. This model allows us to recover a survival function for each municipality that is purged of individual observed heterogeneity. We show that only 30% of the disparities in the observed determinants of the survival rates relate to individual variables. Nearly 70% of the remaining disparities are captured by local indicators, mainly segregation indices.

Keywords: unemployment; economic geography; urban economics; duration models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 J64 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2007-06
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Published - published as 'The effect of location on finding a job in the Paris region' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (7), 1079 - 1112

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