The Effect of Location on Finding a Job in the Greater Paris Area

43 Pages Posted: 5 Jul 2007

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Laurent Gobillon

National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) - Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST); National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED)

Thierry Magnac

Toulouse School of Economics; University of Toulouse 1 - Industrial Economic Institute (IDEI); IZA Institute of Labor Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Harris Selod

National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA); National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) - Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST); The World Bank; Paris School of Economics (PSE); World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

Date Written: June 2007

Abstract

There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalities in the Ile-de-France region (Paris Greater Area). In order to characterize these imbalances, we estimate a proportional hazard model stratified by municipality on an exhaustive dataset of all unemployment spells starting in the first semester of 1996. This model allows us to recover a survival function for each municipality that is purged of individual observed heterogeneity. We show that only 30% of the disparities in the observed determinants of the survival rates relate to individual variables. Nearly 70% of the remaining disparities are captured by local indicators, mainly segregation indices.

Keywords: economic geography, unemployment, duration models, urban economics

JEL Classification: C41, J64, R23

Suggested Citation

Gobillon, Laurent and Magnac, Thierry and Selod, Harris, The Effect of Location on Finding a Job in the Greater Paris Area (June 2007). IZA Discussion Paper No. 2848, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=998258 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.998258

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