The spatial dimension of internal labor markets

Marisa Tavares; Anabela Carneiro; José Varejão

doi:10.1111/jors.12353

The spatial dimension of internal labor markets

Marisa Tavares^*
, Anabela Carneiro
, José Varejão

^*Corresponding author for this work

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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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	181-203
Number of pages	23
Journal	Journal of Regional Science
Volume	58
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12353
Publication status	Published - Jan 2018

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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

Keywords

Internal labor markets
Multiplant firms
Returns to migration
Worker mobility

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