How important is access to jobs? old question -- improved answer
By: by Olof Åslund, John Östh, Yves Zenou
Contributors: Östh, John
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2051; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2051
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Subjects: Refugees; Employment
Description: "We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee dispersal policy to get exogenous variation in individual locations. Using very detailed data on the exact location of all residences and workplaces in Sweden, we find that having been placed in a location with poor job access in 1990-91 adversely affected employment in 1999. Doubling the number of jobs in the initial location in 1990-91 is associated with 2.9 percentage points higher employment probability in 1999. The analysis suggests that residential sorting leads to underestimation of the impact of job access"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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