主题：Local Labor Market Flexibility in a Perceived Low Migration Country: The Case of French Labor Markets
主讲人： The Ohio State University Mark D. Partridge教授
主持人：西南财经大学经济与管理研究院 张大永教授
时间：2015年5月25日（周一）下午14:00—16:00
地点：柳林校区 格致楼经济与管理研究院1214会议室
主办单位：经济与管理研究院 科研处
主讲人简介：
Mark D. Partridge is the C. William Swank Chair in Rural-Urban Policy, Professor AED Economics at the Ohio State University. He got his PhD in Economics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He served as the chair of the North American Regional Science Council since 2015 and the managing editor of Journal of Regional Science since 2010. He is also on the Editorial/Advisory Boards of Annals of Regional Science, Review of Regional Studies, Growth and Change and other international journals.
内容提要：
Local labor markets are most flexible and aggregate natural unemployment is reduced when there is sufficient interregional economic migration to ensure workers are reallocated from declining to expanding regions. Local European labor markets have generally been viewed as not as flexible as those in North America, leading to greater fluctuations in local wages, labor force participation and unemployment rates, and smaller changes in local employment as economic shocks are primarily experienced by the local area’s original residents. France is an interesting case. French gross migration rates—though perhaps relatively low—are higher today than a generation ago. Using a host of identification approaches and French employment zone data dating back to the early 1980s, we investigate whether these changes correspond to economic migration that would increase labor market flexibility. Our results detect surprising amounts of economic migration in that most new jobs are eventually taken by new migrants or outside commuters. We then reconcile these somewhat surprising findings with the still relatively low contemporary French interregional gross migration rates, concluding that other structural impediments besides relative local labor market inflexibility are behind relatively poor labor market performance.
