scholarly journals Spatial Heterogeneity in Amenity and Labor Market Migration

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Henry Rijnks ◽  
Sierdjan Koster ◽  
Philip McCann
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Spatial Heterogeneity ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Global Models ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
Spatial Sorting ◽  
Residential Quality ◽  
Labor Market Dynamics

The disequilibrium and equilibrium models of migration disagree on how local amenities and labor market dynamics influence regional in-migration. Research into migration motives and decision-making show that migration for some individuals is mainly driven by proximity to the labor market, while migration for others is mainly amenity driven. As this is an ongoing process, it should result in a spatial sorting based on migration motives. This means that global models explaining in-migration underestimate the influence of both factors through averaging out of the coefficients across these diverse regions. In this article, we compare a local and a global model explaining in-migration through residential quality and labor market proximity. We find significant differences in the influence of the explanatory variables between regions. Demonstrating this spatial heterogeneity shows that the impacts of factors underpinning migration vary across regions. This result highlights the importance of the regional context in anticipating and designing regional policy concerning population dynamics.

scholarly journals LABOR MARKET DYNAMICS UNDER TECHNOLOGY SHOCKS: THE ROLE OF SUBSISTENCE CONSUMPTION

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Sangyup Choi ◽  
Myungkyu Shim
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Business Cycle ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Structural Var ◽  
Market Dynamics ◽  
Technology Shocks ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Labor Market Dynamics ◽  
Short Run

This paper establishes new stylized facts about labor market dynamics in developing economies, which are distinct from those in advanced economies, and then proposes a simple model to explain them. We first show that the response of hours worked and employment to a technology shock—identified by a structural VAR model with either short-run or long-run restrictions—is substantially smaller in developing economies. We then present compelling empirical evidence that several structural factors related to the relevance of subsistence consumption across countries can jointly account for the relative volatility of employment to output and that of consumption to output. We argue that a standard real business cycle (RBC) model augmented with subsistence consumption can explain the several salient features of business cycle fluctuations in developing economies, especially their distinct labor market dynamics under technology shocks.

Australian labor market dynamics across the ages

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 453-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Ponomareva ◽  
Jeffrey Sheen
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Dynamics ◽  
Labor Market Dynamics

scholarly journals Labor market dynamics, endogenous growth, and asset prices

2016 ◽  
Vol 143 ◽  
pp. 32-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Donadelli ◽  
Patrick Grüning
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Endogenous Growth ◽  
Asset Prices ◽  
Market Dynamics ◽  
Labor Market Dynamics
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