Local Labor Markets

Enrico Moretti

NBER Working Paper No. 15947
Issued in April 2010, Revised in December 2011

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This research was funded by a grant from the University of Kentucky Center on Poverty Research. I am grateful to Giacomo De Giorgi, Craig Riddell, Issi Romen, Michel Serafinelli, David Wildasin, the editors and especially Pat Kline and Gilles Duranton for useful comments on an earlier version. I thank Ana Rocca for excellent research assistance. I thank Richard Hornbeck for help with the data on total factor productivity from the Census of Manufacturers. Any opinions and conclusions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Census Bureau or the National Bureau of Economic Research. All results based on data from the Census of Manufacturers have been reviewed to ensure that no confidential information is disclosed.

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