SMU SOE Seminar (March 10, 2023): Spatial Frictions in the Market for Talent

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ABSTRACT We document new stylized facts for migration patterns of high-skilled, highly specialized workers. Using data on careers on the universe of professional football players, we show spatial, cultural, and legal frictions impede positive assortative matching. We then set up a matching model that yields a gravity equation at the worker-firm-level. Estimating and quantifying the model supports the notion of the strong impact of gravity frictions on worker-firm matching. Using the model’s structure we can simulate hypothetical allocations of players to firms with counterfactual frictions. Click here to view the CV.
		PRESENTER Julian Hinz Bielefeld University
		RESEARCH FIELDS International Economics Applied Econometrics
		DATE: 10 March 2023 (Friday)
		TIME: 10am - 11.30am
		VENUE: Meeting Room 5.1, Level 5 School of Economics Singapore Management University 90 Stamford Road Singapore 178903