Mismatch Unemployment and the Geography of Job Search
Mismatch Unemployment and the Geography of Job Search
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不匹配的失业和求职的地理分布
DOI：
10.1257/mac.20160312
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发表时间：
2016
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通讯作者：
Roland Rathelot
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作者：
I. Marinescu;Roland Rathelot
我们能通过帮助求职者更接近工作岗位来显著降低美国的失业率吗？使用领先的就业委员会CareerBuilder.com的数据，我们表明，确实，工人不喜欢申请遥远的工作：求职者申请10英里（mi）工作的可能性降低了35%。远离他们的居住地然而，由于求职者平均距离空缺职位足够近，这种对距离的厌恶是相当无关紧要的：我们的搜索和匹配模型预测，重新安置求职者以最大限度地减少失业率只会降低5.3%。因此，地域不匹配是总体失业的一个次要驱动因素。(JEL E24、J41、J61、J63、J64、R23）
Could we significantly reduce US 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 percent less likely to apply to a job 10 miles (mi.) 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 percent. Geographic mismatch is thus a minor driver of aggregate unemployment. (JEL E24, J41, J61, J63, J64, R23)