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Trade, Migration and Regional Unemployment

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  • Paolo Epifani
  • Gino Gancia

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A by now large literature in regional economics has greatly improved our understanding of the determinants of the observed spatial disparities in productivity. However, this literature neglects what seems to be a robust and persistent fact accompanying regional productivity differences: high productivity regions also have lower unemployment than low productivity regions. In this paper, we set out a model in the NEG/job search tradition to explore the theoretical determinants of this fact. We find that the same forces producing regional agglomeration and productivity differences also generate persistent unemployment disparities. Moreover, we highlight a contrast between the short-run and long-run effects of migration on regional unemployment. In particular, migration from the periphery to the core may reduce unemployment disparities in the short-run, but exacerbates them in the long-run.

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Paper provided by Barcelona Graduate School of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 199.

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Keywords: Agglomeration; transport costs; search frictions; labor mobility; regional disparities;

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