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How do consumers’ information frictions affect firms’ choice of location within a city? This paper combines an original data collection and a quantitative equilibrium model of consumer search and firm location to answer this question.

Does exposure to one refugee worker increase local employers’ demand for refugees?

How to integrate disadvantaged workers such as immigrants and refugees into host-country labor markets is a pressing global question.

This paper studies the role of consumer information frictions in driving firms’ location choices within cities.

Many firms in developing countries could be too small to adopt modern technology embodied in expensive production machines. This paper shows that rental market interactions allow these small firms to increase their effective scale and mechanize production.

This paper studies the impact of international business coaching via virtual collaboration technology on the strategies and sales of emerging market entrepreneurs.

In developing countries, most manufacturing firms are small and located in high-density urban areas, often near congested streets.

One third of the 420 million young people in Africa are unemployed. Understanding how youth search for jobs and what affects their ability to find good jobs is of paramount importance.