Urban Labor Economics
Author | : Yves Zenou |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 525 |
Release | : 2009-04-27 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780521875387 |
ISBN-13 | : 0521875382 |
Rating | : 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Simple models of urban search matching -- Extensions of urban search-matching models -- Non-monocentric cities and search-matching -- Simple models of urban efficiency wages -- Extensions of urban efficiency wage models -- Non-monocentric cities and efficiency wages -- The spatial mismatch hypothesis : a search-matching approach -- The spatial mismatch hypothesis : an efficiency-wage approach -- Peer effects, social networks, and labor market outcomes in cities -- General conclusion -- Appendix A: basic urban economics -- Appendix B: Poisson process and derivation of Bellman equations -- Appendix C: The Harris-Todaro model.