The (Un)importance of Geographical Mobility in the Great Recession"

B-Tier
Journal: Review of Economic Dynamics
Year: 2013
Volume: 16
Issue: 3
Pages: 553-563

Score contribution per author:

0.670 = (α=2.01 / 3 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

Unemployment during and after the Great Recession has been persistently high. One concern is that the housing bust reduced geographical mobility and prevented workers from moving for jobs. We characterize flows out of unemployment that are related to geographical mobility to construct an upper bound on the effect of mobility on unemployment between 2007 and

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:red:issued:12-205
Journal Field
Macro
Author Count
3
Added to Database
2026-01-29