|
|
|
|
||||
|
||||
The Role of Housing in Labor ReallocationMorris A. DavisUniversity of Wisconsin School of Business Jonas D. M. FisherFederal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Economic Research Department Marcelo VeraciertoFederal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department November 29, 2010 FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2010-18 Abstract: This paper builds a dynamic general equilibrium model of cities and uses it to analyze the role of local housing markets and moving costs in determining the character and extent of labor reallocation in the US economy. Labor reallocation in the model is driven by idiosyncratic city-specific productivity shocks, which we measure using a dataset that we compile using more than 350 U.S. cities for the years 1984 to 2008. Based on this measurement, we find that our model is broadly consistent with the city-level evidence on net and gross population flows, employment, wages and residential investment. We also find that the location-specific nature of housing is more important than moving costs in determining labor reallocation. Absent this quasi-fixity of housing, and under various assumptions governing population flows, population and employment would be much more volatile than observed.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 52 Keywords: Migration, Cities, Housing markets, Labor markets JEL Classification: J61, R23, R31 working papers seriesDate posted: December 3, 2010Suggested CitationContact Information
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
© 2013 Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
FAQ
Terms of Use
Privacy Policy
Copyright
This page was processed by apollo5 in 0.359 seconds
