@article{Détang-Dessendre:210397,
      recid = {210397},
      author = {Détang-Dessendre, Cécile and Gaigné, Carl},
      title = {Unemployment duration, city size, and the tightness of the  labor market},
      address = {2009},
      number = {913-2016-72277},
      series = {09-04},
      pages = {36},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {This paper attempts to determine whether residential  location affects unemployment duration. Our analysis is  based on a spatial job search framework that shows the  importance of dissociating the role of travel time from  physical distance in unemployment duration. The  contribution of our study also stems from the development  of skill-specific accessibility measures that take into  account the spatial distribution of labor supply and  demand. Our results show that physical distance and  competition among searchers must be controlled for in order  to understand the significant role of job access (measured  in terms of travel time) in unemployment duration. Second,  improvements in access raise the probability that persons  living in urban fringes and rural areas will become  employed. Third, for workers living in large urban centers,  the relationship between location and unemployment duration  is insignificant.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/210397},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.210397},
}