abstract: 'Local labor markets are most flexible and aggregate natural unemployment

  is reduced when there is sufficient interregional economic migration to

  ensure that 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 novel

  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. (C)

  2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Detang-Dessendre, C (Corresponding Author), Univ Bourgogne Franche Comte,
  INRA, Cesaer UMR1041, AgroSup Dijon, BP87999, F-21079 Dijon, France.

  Detang-Dessendre, Cecile; Piguet, Virginie, Univ Bourgogne Franche Comte, INRA,
  Cesaer UMR1041, AgroSup Dijon, BP87999, F-21079 Dijon, France.

  Partridge, Mark D., Ohio State Univ, AED Econ, 2120 Fyffe Rd, Columbus, OH 43210
  USA.'
author: Detang-Dessendre, Cecile and Partridge, Mark D. and Piguet, Virginie
author-email: 'Cecile.Detang-Dessendre@dijon.inra.fr

  partridge.27@osu.edu

  virginie.piguet@dijon.inra.fr'
author_list:
- family: Detang-Dessendre
  given: Cecile
- family: Partridge
  given: Mark D.
- family: Piguet
  given: Virginie
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2016.03.003
eissn: 1879-2308
files: []
issn: 0166-0462
journal: REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS
keywords: 'Internal migration; Labor market flexibility; Rural urban disparities;

  Local labor market'
keywords-plus: 'INTERNAL MIGRATION; UNEMPLOYMENT; GROWTH; WAGE; EQUILIBRIUM; RIGIDITIES;

  EUROPE; SHIFTS'
language: English
month: MAY
number-of-cited-references: '55'
orcid-numbers: Piguet, Virginie/0000-0001-9424-4695
pages: 89-103
papis_id: 5b2455b1112482734e8848b21a6fe47a
ref: Detangdessendre2016locallabor
times-cited: '21'
title: 'Local labor market flexibility in a perceived low migration country: The case
  of French labor markets'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000376215700008
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '24'
volume: '58'
web-of-science-categories: Economics; Environmental Studies; Urban Studies
year: '2016'