Density boosts productivity and innovation, improves access to goods and services, reduces
typical travel distances, encourages energy efficient construction and transport, and allows …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many states have adopted stay-at-home orders,
rendering a large segment of the workforce unable to continue doing their jobs. These …

We study optimal spatial policies in a quantitative trade and geography framework with
spillovers and spatial sorting of heterogeneous workers. We characterize the spatial …

Spatial disparities in income levels and worklessness in the European Union are profound,
persistent and may be widening. We describe disparities across metropolitan regions and …

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 …

What do you want for yourself in the next five, ten years? Do your plans involve marriage,
kids, a new job? These are the questions a real estate agent might ask in an attempt to …

In this article, we review the internal geographic mobility of immigrants and natives in the
United States in the recent decades, with a focus on the period since 2000. We confirm a …

We assess the role of internal migration and urbanisation in China on the nominal earnings
of three groups of workers (rural migrants, low-skilled natives, and high-skilled natives). We …

Recent technological changes have been characterized as “routine‐substituting” because
they reduce demand for routine tasks and increase demand for analytical and service tasks …

Since 1980, college-educated workers have been steadily moving into affluent cities while
non-college workers have been moving out. One likely reason is that employment and …