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Zenou, Yves

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We develop different spatial search models in which a land market is embedded into a standard search matching framework. The link between the land and the labour market is realized through the average search intensity of unemployed workers. We first develop a simple model where search intensity is exogenous. Because of this assumption, only one urban pattern emerges in which the employed reside close to jobs and the unemployed at the periphery of the city. We then extend this benchmark model by assuming that workers' search intensity negatively depends on their residential distance to jobs. This leads to two urban-land use patterns where the unemployed workers either reside close to or far away from jobs. Finally, we consider the case where the unemployed workers endogenously choose their search intensity and we show that they search less, the further away they reside from jobs. Apart from the two previous urban patterns, there is a third equilibrium that emerges, which has a core-periphery structure. In each model, we explore the labour market outcomes (job creation, unemployment and wages) of the different urban land use patterns.

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Keywords: job search; search intensity; spatial mismatch; urban land use;

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D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search, Learning, and Information
J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities and Races; Non-labor Discrimination
J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
R14 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Land Use Patterns

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  1. Yves Zenou, 2007. "Endogenous Job Destruction and Job Matching in Cities," IZA Discussion Papers 2695, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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