Differences in employment-population ratios across US commuting zones have persisted for
many decades. We claim these disparities represent real gaps in economic opportunity for …

Low-skill workers are comparatively immobile: when labor demand slumps in a city, low-skill
workers are disproportionately likely to remain to face declining wages and employment …

We provide theory and evidence that the elasticity of local employment to a labor demand
shock is heterogeneous depending on the commuting openness of the local labor market …

Low-skill workers are comparatively immobile. This paper estimates the role of housing
prices and social transfers in accounting for this fact using a spatial equilibrium model …

This paper studies the processes of wage and employment dynamics within local labor
markets. The theoretical context is a dynamic spatial equilibrium among locales that is …

Conventional macro-search models (Mortensen and Pissarides) with unemployment
benefits and taxes have been able to account for the variation in unemployment rates across …

We present new evidence on the evolution of labor mobility in the United States over the
past four decades. Building on the seminal methodology by Blanchard and Katz (1992) …

Real wage growth for non-college educated workers varied greatly across US local labor
markets during the 2000s. This paper investigates the extent to which this variation in local …

What is the role of migration in regional evolutions? I document that within-US migration
causes a reduction in the unemployment rate of the receiving city over several years. To …

Theory predicts that within a metropolitan area, employers located where there is difficult
commuting will have to compensate their workers with appropriately higher wages. This …