Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62382 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6767
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We propose using sign restrictions to identify regional labor demand shocks in a panel VAR of US federal states. Observed migration responds significantly, but less persistently than the residual-based migration measure constructed by Blanchard and Katz (1992).
Subjects: 
regional labor markets
migration
panel VAR
sign restrictions
JEL: 
E24
R11
C33
C32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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