Unemployment duration, city size, and the tightness of the labor market

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 266-276

  Détang Dessendre, Cécile ^a   Gaigné, Carl ^b  

^a Centre d'Economie et Sociologie Appliquees a l'Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux   (France)

^b LERECO   (France)

Author keywords

Commuting time; Job accessibility; Unemployment duration

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; COMMUTING; JOB SEARCH; JOURNEY TO WORK; LABOR MARKET; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; TRAVEL TIME; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 61549130930     PISSN: 01660462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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