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Location‐specific knowledge in spatial job search and its outcomes: An empirical investigation

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  • Gintarė Morkutė

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This paper investigates how working location influences jobseekers' subsequent spatial job search. Further, it is assessed to what extent mobility between working regions is associated with wage growth. The results show that the working region functions as a prominent geographical anchor around which the new job search is focused. The jobseekers that do find a job far away from their old working region receive a small wage premium, but this premium disappears if selectivity is taken into account. It is concluded that employees demonstrate substantial stickiness to their working locations, and that this is motivated by asymmetry in search costs. No evidence was found that mobility between working regions in itself affects wages. Este artículo investiga cómo influye la ubicación del lugar de trabajo en la posterior búsqueda espacial de trabajo por los demandantes de empleo. Además, se evalúa en qué medida la movilidad entre regiones laborales está asociada al crecimiento salarial. Los resultados muestran que la región de trabajo funciona como un polo de atracción prominente en torno al cual se centra la búsqueda de nuevo empleo. Los solicitantes de empleo que encuentran un trabajo lejos de su antigua región de trabajo reciben una pequeña prima salarial, pero esta prima desaparece si se tiene en cuenta la selectividad. Se concluye que los empleados demuestran una enorme atracción a las mismas ubicaciones de sus lugares de trabajo, y que esto está motivado por asimetrías en los costos de búsqueda. No se han encontrado pruebas de que, por sí misma, la movilidad entre regiones de trabajo afecte a los salarios. 本稿では、職場の立地が、求職者のその後の空間的な求職活動にどのように影響するかを検討する。さらに、労働地域間の移動が、賃金の上昇にどの程度関連するかを評価する。結果から、職場の地域は新しい職探しの中心となる、顕著な地理的アンカーとして機能していることが示された。前の職場の地域から遠い地域の仕事に就く者が得る賃金プレミアムは少ないが、選択性を考慮した場合では、このプレミアムは消滅する。結論として、被雇用者には、少なからず自分の職場の立地にとどまる傾向があり、これは職探しのコストと非対称性に動機づけられているといえる。労働地域間の移動が本質的に賃金に影響することを示すエビデンスは得られなかった。

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  • Gintarė Morkutė, 2019. "Location‐specific knowledge in spatial job search and its outcomes: An empirical investigation," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 98(3), pages 1373-1395, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:presci:v:98:y:2019:i:3:p:1373-1395
    DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12418
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