TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marinescu,Ioana
AU  - Rathelot,Roland
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Mismatch Unemployment and the Geography of Job Search
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - September 2016; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - Could we significantly reduce U.S. 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% less likely to apply to a job 10 miles 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%. Geographic mismatch is thus a minor driver of aggregate unemployment
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w22672
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w22672
ER  -