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Urban labor economics /



xiii, 509 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Content notes : 1. Simple models of urban search matching --
2. Extensions of urban search-matching models --
3. Non-monocentric cities and search-matching --
4. Simple models of urban efficiency wages --
5. Extensions of urban efficiency wage models --
6. Non-monocentric cities and efficiency wages --
7. The spatial mismatch hypothesis : a search-matching approach --
8. The spatial mismatch hypothesis : an efficiency-wage approach --
9. Peer effects, social networks, and labor market outcomes in cities --
General conclusion --
Appendix A: basic urban economics --
Appendix B: Poisson process and derivation of Bellman equations --
Appendix C: The Harris-Todaro model. Urban policy.

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