The spatial dimension of internal labor markets

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2018

Authors

Tavares, M (Author) Other; Anabela Carneiro (Author) FEP; José Varejão (Author) FEP

Journal

Title: Journal of Regional Science

Vol. 58

Pages: 181-203

ISSN: 0022-4146

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00N-GMA

DOI: 10.1111/jors.12353

Abstract (EN): We integrate into a unified framework the spatial and the employment dimensions of worker mobility, tracing workers across firms, across establishments, and across regions. Drawing upon the spatial dimension of internal labor markets in firms with multiple establishments in multiple locations, our results indicate that the contemporaneous wage premium to migration is around 3 percentage points. For the case of job switchers, we find that the return to regional migration is due to access to better jobs at the destination. We also document the existence of an urban premium for same-employer migrants but for employer changes this premium is driven by selection.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 23