THE EFFECT OF URBANIZATION ON LABOR TURNOVER*
利用美国青年纵向调查面板数据，实证检验了城市化是否通过促进工作流动来改善劳动力匹配效率，发现年轻人在更大或教育水平更高的城市地区更频繁地更换工作。
ABSTRACT The paper empirically examines labor market matching as a source of urban agglomeration economies. We work from the hypothesis that job turnover leads to tighter labor matches and estimate the relationship between urbanization and the job mobility of young men. Using a panel from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we find evidence that young men change jobs more frequently in their early career if they live in larger or in more educated urban areas. The sensitivity of the results to whether the young men were “movers” or “stayers” suggests the possible endogeneity of location.