Labor Market Pooling

July 1, 2002

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Guido De Blasio, and Sabrina Di Addario. Labor Market Pooling, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2002) accessed September 18, 2024

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Summary

The paper provides an empirical investigation of labor market pooling. The analysis concentrates on Italian industrial districts and shows that there is scattered evidence of a widespread wage premium. In particular, there is no evidence of district differentials for the returns to seniority while there is evidence of negative differentials for the returns to education. Moreover, dwelling in a district has no impact on the probability of being self-employed and only a minor impact on the likelihood of transiting from wage-and-salary to self-employment. Finally, there is no evidence of higher district worker mobility across jobs.

Subject: Education, Employment, Labor, Labor markets, Self-employment, Wages

Keywords: Agglomeration, Cluster firm, Dependent variable, District firm, Employment, Human Capital, Labor demand schedules, Labor Market, Labor markets, Labor Mobility, Self-employment, Wages, Work status, Worker mobility, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

37
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2002/121
Stock No:

WPIEA1212002
ISBN:

9781451854398
ISSN:

1018-5941

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