The spatial dimension of internal labor markets

Marisa Tavares*, Anabela Carneiro, José Varejão

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Abstract

We integrate into a unified framework the spatial and the employment dimensions of worker mobility, tracing workers across firms, across establishments, and across regions. Drawing upon the spatial dimension of internal labor markets in firms with multiple establishments in multiple locations, our results indicate that the contemporaneous wage premium to migration is around 3 percentage points. For the case of job switchers, we find that the return to regional migration is due to access to better jobs at the destination. We also document the existence of an urban premium for same-employer migrants but for employer changes this premium is driven by selection.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)181-203
Number of pages23
JournalJournal of Regional Science
Volume58
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2018

Keywords

  • Internal labor markets
  • Multiplant firms
  • Returns to migration
  • Worker mobility

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