Essays on worker mobility, spatial labor markets, and urban real estate markets
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: Vancouver School of Economics
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Duan, Yige
issued: 2024-06-24T17:34:18Z
issued: 2024
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter studies the long-run effect of job displacement on workers' commuting costs to subsequent jobs. Using German employee-employer data, geo-coordinates of workers' residences and workplaces, and a matched event study design, we estimate the response of workers' commuting distances to job displacement in mass layoffs. Displaced workers take up new jobs requiring 21 percent longer commuting, and the effect persists in the subsequent 10 years. To quantify the monetary value of increased commuting, we develop and estimate an on-the-job search model for workers' willingness to pay to avoid commuting. The extra commuting cost amounts to one-fifth of the wage losses facing displaced workers, which exacerbates the total cost of job displacement. In the second chapter, we show that dockless bike sharing solves the "last-mile problem" in public transportation by reducing the commuting cost between home and subway stations. As such, shared bikes increase the attractiveness and prices of apartments distant from subways relative to those nearby. Using resale apartment data and the staggered entry of bike sharing in 10 Chinese cities, we find that bike sharing reduces the housing price premiums near the subway by 29 percent. The reduction is equivalent to 1,893-2,127 CYN (282-317 USD) of the commuting cost per household per year over 30 years of residence. It is driven by a relative increase in the listing prices of and the demand for apartments distant from vis-à-vis proximate to subways. The third chapter assesses the effects of a corporate income tax cut for small businesses on employee earnings. Following a 2014 reform in Quebec, Canada, firms receiving the tax cut significantly raised the earnings of their workers. The earnings growth is connected with firms’ increased profits, as the effects are larger in high-growth industries where firms invest more and enjoy greater productivity. We estimate that workers bear u…
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note: Essays on Worker Mobility, SpatialLabor Markets, and Urban RealEstate MarketsbyYige DuanB.A, Fudan University, 2015M.A, National University of Singapore, 2016A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OFTHE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OFDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHYinThe Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies(Economics)THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA(Vancouver)June 2024© Yige Duan 2024The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduateand Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the dissertation entitled:Essays on Worker Mobility, Spatial Labor Markets, and Urban Real Estate Marketssubmitted by Yige Duan in partial fulfilment of the requirements forthe degree of Doctor of Philosophyin EconomicsExamining Committee:Thomas Lemieux, Professor, Economics, UBCCo-supervisorNicole Fortin, Professor, Economics, UBCCo-supervisorKyungchul Song, Professor, Economics, UBCSupervisory Committee MemberDavid A. Green, Professor, Economics, UBCUniversity ExaminerThomas Davidoff, Associate Professor, Strategy and Business Economics, UBCUniversity ExaminerFabian Lange, Professor, Economics, McGill UniversityExternal ExaminerAdditional Supervisory Committee Members:Raffaele Saggio, Assistant Professor, Economics, UBCSupervisory Committee MemberiiAbstractThis dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter studies the long-run effect of jobdisplacement on workers’ commuting costs to subsequent jobs. Using German employee-employerdata, geo-coordinates of workers’ residences and workplaces, and a matched event study design,we estimate the response of workers’ commuting distances to job displacement in mass layoffs.Displaced workers take up new jobs requiring 21 percent longer commuting, and the effect persistsin the subsequent 10 years. To quantify the monetary value of increased commuting, we develop andestimate an on-the-job search model for workers’ willingness to pay to avoid commuting. The extracommuting cost amounts to one-fifth of th…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2024-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0444017
language: eng
degree discipline: Economics
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Lemieux, Thomas
contributor: Fortin, Nicole M.
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88507