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, 2, I exploit the individual dimension of the labor Force Survey (LFS) to study the potential bias due to the sorting of workers across locations based on their observable and unobservable characteristics. In the second step of the estimation, I regress the region-year fixed-effects estimated in the first step

, As a robustness, I repeat this estimation using density that is calculated using the SGK data. Table E1 presents these results