Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/246053 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Upjohn Institute Working Paper No. 21-339
Publisher: 
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI
Abstract: 
This paper estimates that long-run changes in a county's prime-age employment rate are significantly affected by labor demand shocks to both the county and its overlying commuting zone (CZ). The overall benefits of labor demand shocks are due more to CZ demand shocks than county demand shocks. A lower preexisting county employment rate increases the effects of CZ demand shocks. Simulations suggest that low prior employment rate CZs, versus higher-rate CZs, will have much larger employment rate effects from demand shocks. Targeting jobs at more distressed counties within a CZ has modest effects, much lower than the effects of targeting jobs at more distressed CZs.
Subjects: 
Local labor markets
job creation benefits
local labor demand
regional distress
JEL: 
R23
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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