Cities and Skills

Edward L. Glaeser, David C. Mare

This paper examines the productivity (and wage) gains from locating in dense, urban environments. We distinguish between three potential explanations of why firms are willing to pay urban workers more: (1) the urban wage premium is spurious and is the result of omitted ability measures, (2) the urban wage premium works because cities enhance productivity and (3) the urban wage premium is the result of faster skill accumulation in cities. Using a combination of standard regressions, individual fixed effects estimation (using migrants) and instrumental variables methods, we find that the urban wage premium does not represent omitted ability bias and it is only in part a level effect to productivity. The bulk of the urban wage premium accrues over time as a result of greater skill accumulation in cities

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Year of publication:	May 1994
Authors:	Glaeser, Edward L.
Other Persons:	Mare, David C. (contributor)
Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor)
Publisher:	Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research
Subject:	Qualifikation \| Occupational qualification \| Städtischer Arbeitsmarkt \| Urban labour market \| Ballungsraum \| Metropolitan area \| Agglomerationseffekt \| Agglomeration effect \| Humankapital \| Human capital \| OECD-Staaten \| OECD countries

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource
Series:	NBER working paper series ; no. w4728
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Mode of access: World Wide Web System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers.
Other identifiers:	10.3386/w4728 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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