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| Title: | | Unemployment, commuting, and search intensity  |
| Authors: | | Wrede, Matthias |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IWQW discussion paper series 12/2011 |
| Abstract: | | Employing a standard matching unemployment model extended by within-labor-market-regions commuting, this paper analyzes the tradeoff between commuting costs and unemployment. Depending on whether commuters are able to bargain for fringe benefits, search may or may not be biased towards distant workplaces and less productive centers. As a consequence, unemployment benefits should be tied to search in high productivity regions. Using German county data, the paper tests some positive predictions that emerge from of the model. In particular, it confirms that increasing labor market tightness reduces the willingness to out-commute. |
| Subjects: | | unemployment matching commuting search labor market policy |
| JEL: | | R12 R13 R14 H22 |
| Appears in Collections: | | IWQW Discussion Paper Series, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
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