Trade, migration and regional unemployment

被引:39
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作者
Epifani, P
Gancia, GA
机构
[1] CREI, Barcelona 08005, Spain
[2] Univ Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona 08005, Spain
[3] Univ Parma, I-43100 Parma, Italy
[4] CESPRI, I-43100 Parma, Italy
关键词
agglomeration; transport costs; search frictions; labor mobility; regional disparities;
D O I
10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2004.09.003
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
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 New Economic Geography (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. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:625 / 644
页数:20
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