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This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in … double, interpersonal inequality would decline by 40-50% and inter-provincial inequality would vanish. In all years …
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This paper assesses regional inequality in urban China. It predicts earnings for each worker in multiple provinces … been greater by between 42% and 83% and interpersonal inequality would have been less in all but 2013. If they had received … maximum predicted earnings in their home provinces, inter-provincial inequality would have vanished. Predicted earnings were …
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Income levels are higher in cities. The evidence for the income gap between urban and rural areas is overwhelming, but the agglomeration effect is hard to identify. Recent advances make use of individual level data to separate out sorting and instrumentation to handle the endogeneity of...
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Sorting of high-ability workers is a main source of urban-rural disparities in economic outcomes. Less is known about when such human capital sorting occurs and who it involves. Using data on 15 cohorts of university graduates in Sweden, we demonstrate significant sorting to urban regions on...
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The present article describes how the spatial distribution of income in Switzerland is related to natural amenities. We explore the link between inequalities in Swiss municipalities and the presence of lakes, rivers, mountains, good accessibility and green amenities. By using fiscal data on...
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labor migration in China. Upon accounting for regional differentials in skill-based compensation, cost-of-living, amenities …We estimate a skill-based directional migration model to assess the effects of regional human capital agglomeration on … the importance of human capital agglomeration benefits to disparate regional growth trajectories in China …
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This paper brings new evidence to the existing literature on earnings differentials and returns to human capital for immigrants and natives. It is the first paper analysing this topic using data drawn from the Italian Labour Force Survey, a large nationally representative dataset. We show that...
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migration including negative selection of migrants to less dense areas and positive selection towards denser areas. Nonetheless … migration, even in the long run, accounts for little of the skill differences between denser and less dense areas. Finally, we …
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migration including negative selection of migrants to less dense areas and positive selection towards denser areas. Nonetheless … migration, even in the long run, accounts for little of the skill differences between denser and less dense areas. Finally, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107199
In this paper we survey the recent developments in two empirical literatures at the crossroads of labor and urban economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) and about the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the methods and main results of each of these two...
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