Discussion paper

DP6199 The Effect of Location on Finding a Job in the Paris Region

There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalities in the Paris region (Ile-de-France). In order to characterize these imbalances, we estimate a proportional hazard model stratified by municipality on an exhaustive dataset of all unemployment spells starting in the first semester of 1996. This model allows us to recover a survival function for each municipality that is purged of individual observed heterogeneity. We show that only 30% of the disparities in the survival rates relate to observed individual variables. Nearly 70% of the remaining disparities are captured by local indicators, mainly segregation indices.

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Citation

Magnac, T, H Selod and L Gobillon (2007), ‘DP6199 The Effect of Location on Finding a Job in the Paris Region‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 6199. CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/dp6199