TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Aslund, Olof
AU  - Östh, John
AU  - Zenou, Yves
        TI  - How Important Is Access to Jobs? Old Question – Improved Answer
        PY  - 2006/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2051
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2051
        AB  - We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee dispersal policy to get exogenous variation in individual locations. Using very detailed data on the exact location of all residences and workplaces in Sweden, we find that having been placed in a location with poor job access in 1990-91 adversely affected employment in 1999. Doubling the number of jobs in the initial location in 1990-91 is associated with 2.9 percentage points higher employment probability in 1999. The analysis suggests that residential sorting leads to underestimation of the impact of job access.
        KW  - natural experiment
KW  - endogenous location
KW  - spatial mismatch
        ER  -