Arbeitspapier

How Important is Access to Jobs? Old Question - Improved Answer

We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee dispersal policy to obtain exogenous variation in individual locations. Using very detailed data on the exact location of all residences and workplaces in Sweden, we find that having been placed in a location with poor job access in 1990-91 adversely affected employment in 1999. Doubling the number of jobs in the initial location in 1990-91 is associated with 2.9 percentage points higher employment probability in 1999. Considering that the 1999 employment rate was 43 percent among the refugees, this is a considerable effect. The analysis suggests that residential sorting leads to underestimation of the impact of job access.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CReAM Discussion Paper Series ; No. 25/09

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Demographic Economics: Public Policy
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
Thema
Job access
endogenous location
natural experiment

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Aslund, Olof
Osth, John
Zenou, Yves
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
(wo)
London
(wann)
2009

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Aslund, Olof
  • Osth, John
  • Zenou, Yves
  • Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London

Entstanden

  • 2009

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