Multi-region job search with moving costs

Keisuke Kawata, Kentaro Nakajima and Yasuhiro Sato

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2016, vol. 61, issue C, 114-129

Abstract: We develop a competitive search model involving multiple regions, geographically mobile workers, and moving costs. Equilibrium mobility patterns are analyzed and characterized, and the results indicate that shocks to a particular region, such as a productivity shock, can propagate to other regions through workers' mobility. Moreover, equilibrium mobility patterns are inefficient due to the existence of moving costs.

Keywords: Competitive job search; Geographical mobility of workers; Moving costs; Efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 J64 R13 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2016.10.002

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