TY - JOUR
T1 - Spatial spillovers in job matching
T2 - Evidence from the Japanese local labor markets
AU - Higashi, Yudai
N1 - Funding Information:
I would like to thank anonymous reviewers, Kazufumi Yugami, Nobuaki Hamaguchi, Keisuke Kondo, Tamotsu Nakamura, Keijiro Otsuka, Hajime Seya, Ana Maria Takahashi, Yasuhide Tanaka, and participants at the seminar at Kobe University, the 21st Wakate Kenkyusha niyoru Keizaigaku Kenkyukai, the 2016 Kansai branch meeting of the Japan Economic Policy Association, the 2017 Autumn Meeting of the Japanese Economic Association, the 31st Annual Meeting of the Applied Regional Science Conference, and the Rokko Forum for their helpful comments. I would also like to thank Hirokazu Fujii of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and the Employment Policy Division of Employment Security Bureau for their providing the data for Public Employment Security Office. Remaining errors are my own. This work was supported by the Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP18J11560).
Funding Information:
I would like to thank anonymous reviewers, Kazufumi Yugami, Nobuaki Hamaguchi, Keisuke Kondo, Tamotsu Nakamura, Keijiro Otsuka, Hajime Seya, Ana Maria Takahashi, Yasuhide Tanaka, and participants at the seminar at Kobe University, the 21st Wakate Kenkyusha niyoru Keizaigaku Kenkyukai, the 2016 Kansai branch meeting of the Japan Economic Policy Association, the 2017 Autumn Meeting of the Japanese Economic Association, the 31st Annual Meeting of the Applied Regional Science Conference, and the Rokko Forum for their helpful comments. I would also like to thank Hirokazu Fujii of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and the Employment Policy Division of Employment Security Bureau for their providing the data for Public Employment Security Office. Remaining errors are my own. This work was supported by the Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP18J11560).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - This paper examines whether and how job matching in a local region is affected by unemployment and vacancies in neighboring regions in addition to those in its own region. By using panel data from Japan, we estimate the matching function accounting for the spatial spillovers from neighboring regions. According to our results, job seekers in the local region compete with their counterparts in neighboring regions for jobs. This spatial competition for jobs stems from inter-regional job search, observed as spatial spillovers. Furthermore, catastrophic events, such as natural disasters, boost the magnitude of spatial spillovers in job matching.
AB - This paper examines whether and how job matching in a local region is affected by unemployment and vacancies in neighboring regions in addition to those in its own region. By using panel data from Japan, we estimate the matching function accounting for the spatial spillovers from neighboring regions. According to our results, job seekers in the local region compete with their counterparts in neighboring regions for jobs. This spatial competition for jobs stems from inter-regional job search, observed as spatial spillovers. Furthermore, catastrophic events, such as natural disasters, boost the magnitude of spatial spillovers in job matching.
KW - Inter-regional job search
KW - Matching function
KW - Spatial competition for jobs
KW - Spatial econometrics
KW - Time trend of spatial spillover
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jjie.2018.06.001
DO - 10.1016/j.jjie.2018.06.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85048414339
SN - 0889-1583
VL - 50
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - Journal of the Japanese and International Economies
JF - Journal of the Japanese and International Economies
ER -
