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LSE Business Review blog:
If we want to create jobs in local areas, the idea of `local? needs to be revisited

1 December 2017

New job openings attract not only local workers, but also those living relatively near, write Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo.....

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"How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model", American Economic Journal. Alan Manning, Barbara Petrongolo, October 2017

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20131026

 

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