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Mismatch Unemployment and the Geography of Job Search / Ioana Marinescu, Roland Rathelot.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marinescu, Ioana.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22672.
- NBER working paper series no. w22672
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.
- Summary:
- Could we significantly reduce U.S. unemployment by helping job seekers move closer to jobs? Using data from the leading employment board CareerBuilder.com, we show that, indeed, workers dislike applying to distant jobs: job seekers are 35% less likely to apply to a job 10 miles away from their ZIP code of residence. However, because job seekers are close enough to vacancies on average, this distaste for distance is fairly inconsequential: our search and matching model predicts that relocating job seekers to minimize unemployment would decrease unemployment by only 5.3%. Geographic mismatch is thus a minor driver of aggregate unemployment.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- September 2016.
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