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

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We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee dispersal policy to get 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. The analysis suggests that residential sorting leads to underestimation of the impact of job access.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 661

Classification and Topics

• Classification: 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
• Subject: Spatial Mismatch ; Endogenous Location ; Natural Experiment ; Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Einkommen ; Beschäftigung ; Schweden ; Geographische Entfernung

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Åslund, Olof ; Östh, John ; Zenou, Yves
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
• (where): Stockholm
• (when): 2006

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/81277
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:46 AM CET