2005
DOI: 10.1080/00420980500332031
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Unemployment and Urban Labour Markets

Abstract: Two quite distinct views on how metropolitan labour markets work have co-existed for over three decades. Both claim empirical support and, after a brief period of confrontation, they continue to co-exist today giving quite conflicting signals to policy-makers. According to the first model, the urban labour market consists of a number of spatially defined sub-markets so that local unemployment exists primarily because of deficiencies in highly localised demand for labour. By this argument, unemployment rates re… Show more

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“…As a result of vacancy chains -that is the fact that if a person leaves a job in one location to fill a vacancy somewhere else they create a vacant job to be filled by someone living elsewhere -opportunities will tend to be equalized over the set of linked local labor markets (Morrison, 2005). The condition for this opportunity equalization between neighboring areas appears to be simply that cross-boundary commuting flows exceed some threshold (see Gordon and Lamont, 1982).…”
Section: Comparing and Contrasting The Drivers Of Population And Econmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As a result of vacancy chains -that is the fact that if a person leaves a job in one location to fill a vacancy somewhere else they create a vacant job to be filled by someone living elsewhere -opportunities will tend to be equalized over the set of linked local labor markets (Morrison, 2005). The condition for this opportunity equalization between neighboring areas appears to be simply that cross-boundary commuting flows exceed some threshold (see Gordon and Lamont, 1982).…”
Section: Comparing and Contrasting The Drivers Of Population And Econmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Of course, these analyses are founded on different conceptualisations of urban labour markets-such as the extent to which the labour market is segmented or in fact can draw in mobile labour from across the metropolitan system (Morrison, 2005). In this regard the Gobillon et al (2007) paper is particularly useful in that it moves beyond empirical confirmation of one form or another of the hypothesis and instead attempts to understand the underlying process, identifying seven mechanisms of mismatch (p.2408-09):…”
Section: Spatial Mismatch Hypothesismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus, low-skilled workers will face a segmented urban labour market, while for high-skilled workers space is less restrictive. Unemployment for low-skilled workers will be associated with the lack of jobs in the areas close to their residence, while high-skilled workers will search for jobs in a wider spatial scale (Morrison 2005). Therefore, for high-skilled individuals, urban landscape is expected to have a smaller impact on their labour market outcomes.…”
Section: Spatial Mismatch and Labour Market Equilibriummentioning
confidence: 99%