Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Paper Series,
Research Institute of Industrial Economics
No 607: Search Activities, Cost of Living and Local Labor Markets
Eleonora Patacchini (ep@soton.ac.uk) and Yves Zenou (yves.zenou@ifn.se)
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Eleonora Patacchini: University of Southampton, Postal: Department of Economics, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
Yves Zenou: The Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Postal: P.O. Box 55665, SE-102 15 Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract: A model is considered in which optimal search intensity is a result of a trade off between short run losses due to higher search costs (more interviews, commuting...) and long-run gains due to a higher chance of finding a job. We show that this optimal search intensity is higher in areas characterized by larger cost of living and/or higher labor market tightness. This model is then tested for England on sub-regional data. We estimate a spatial error model and we find that both the local cost of living and the local labor market tightness are found to have a positive and significant effect on unemployed average search intensity. These findings are consistent with the prediction of the theoretical model.
Keywords: Job Matching; Search Intensities; Spatial Correlation
31 pages, November 14, 2003
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