Labor Misallocation Across Firms and Regions

Sebastian Heise and Tommaso Porzio

No 30298, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We develop a frictional labor market model with multiple regions and heterogeneous firms to study how frictions impeding labor mobility across space affect the joint allocation of labor across firms and regions. Bringing the model to matched employer-employee data from Germany, we find that spatial frictions generate large misallocation of labor across firms within regions. By shielding firms from competition for workers from other regions, spatial frictions allow low productivity firms to expand, reducing aggregate productivity. Overall, we show that taking into account the characteristics of the local labor market is important to quantify the aggregate losses from spatial frictions.

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Date: 2022-07
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