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The spatial dimension of internal labor markets
Author(s) -
Tavares Marisa,
Carneiro Anabela,
Varejão José
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1467-9787
pISSN - 0022-4146
DOI - 10.1111/jors.12353
Subject(s) - dimension (graph theory) , wage , internal migration , tracing , labour economics , labor cost , economics , economic geography , business , developing country , economic growth , computer science , mechanical engineering , mathematics , pure mathematics , engineering , operating system
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.