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Spatial mismatch through local public employment agencies Answers from a French quasi-experiment Spatial Mismatch through Local Public Employment Agencies? Answers from a French Quasi-Experiment
Mathieu BunelElisabeth Tovarsubject
JEL : C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C2 - Single Equation Models • Single Variables/C.C2.C21 - Cross-Sectional Models • Spatial Models • Treatment Effect Models • Quantile Regressionsquasi-experimentunemploymentJEL : J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J5 - Labor–Management Relations Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining/J.J5.J58 - Public Policy[ SHS.ECO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economies and financesspatial mismatchJEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C2 - Single Equation Models • Single Variables/C.C2.C21 - Cross-Sectional Models • Spatial Models • Treatment Effect Models • Quantile Regressionspublic employment serviceJEL : R - Urban Rural Regional Real Estate and Transportation Economics/R.R5 - Regional Government Analysis/R.R5.R53 - Public Facility Location Analysis • Public Investment and Capital Stock[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance[SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and FinanceJEL: R - Urban Rural Regional Real Estate and Transportation Economics/R.R5 - Regional Government Analysis/R.R5.R53 - Public Facility Location Analysis • Public Investment and Capital StockJEL: J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J5 - Labor–Management Relations Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining/J.J5.J58 - Public Policydescription
Using the unanticipated creation of a new agency in the French region of Lyon as a quasi-natural experiment, we question whether distance to local public employment agencies (LPEAs) is a new channel for spatial mismatch. Contrary to past evidence based on aggregated data and consistently with the spatial mismatch literature, we find no evidence of a worker/agency spatial mismatch, which pleads for a resizing of the French LPEA network. However, echoing with the literature on the institutional determinants of the local public employment agencies' efficiency, we do find detrimental institutional transitory effects.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2015-10-01 |