Urban Labor Economics (Hardcover)

Introduction; Part I. Urban Search-Matching: 1. Simple models of urban search-matching; 2. Extensions of urban search-matching models; 3. Non-monocentric cities and search-matching; Part II. Urban Efficiency Wages: 4. Simple models of urban efficiency wages; 5. Extensions of urban efficiency wage models; 6. Non-monocentric cities and efficiency wages; Part III. Urban Ghettos and the Labor Market: 7. The spatial mismatch hypothesis: a search-matching approach; 8. The spatial mismatch hypothesis: an efficiency-wage approach; 9. Peer effects, social networks, and labor market outcomes in cities; General conclusion.