D'Costa, Sabine; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
premium. Second, whether workers receive this wage premium immediately, or through faster wage growth over time. Using a large … increases in city size. We next provide evidence of a city size premium on wage growth, but show that this effect is driven … sorting on the basis of unobservables we find no evidence of an urban wage growth premium. Experience in cities does have some …