RT Report
T1 Geographic Mobility Over the Life-cycle
A1 Díaz, Antonia
A1 Jáñez, Álvaro
A1 Wellschmied, Felix
AB When mobility between locations is frictional, a person’s economic well-being is partially determined by her place of birth. Using a life cycle model of mobility, we find that search frictions are the main impairment to the mobility of young people in Spain, and these frictions are particularly strong in economically distressed locations. As a result, being born in a highunemployment urban area carries with it a large welfare penalty. Less stable jobs, slower skill accumulation, lower average wages, and fewer possibilities for geographic mobility all contribute to these welfare losses. Paying transfers to people in distressed economic locations decreases these welfare losses without large adverse effects on mobility. In contrast, several policies that encourage people to move to low-unemployment urban areas increase these welfare losses and fail to meaningfully increase mobility towards these more successful locations.
SN 2341-2356
YR 2023
FD 2023-02
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/4351
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/4351
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 abr 2025