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Koster, Hans; Ozgen, Ceren - 2021

repetitive and automatable), meaning that jobs cover a larger spectrum of tasks. We then explore how the routine intensity of … jobs affects the urban wage premium. We find that the urban wage premium is higher for workers performing non-routine tasks …, particularly analytic tasks, while it is absent for workers in routine task intensive jobs. These findings also hold within skill …

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Smart cities are big cities : comparative advantage in Chinese cities

Hu, Shiwei; Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2014

The literature on China indicates that the concentration of economic activities in China is less than in other industrialized countries. Institutional limits are largely held responsible for this finding (e.g. the Hukou system); firms and workers are not able to take full advantage of the...

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The urban wage premium and spatial sorting on observed and unobserved ability

Eliasson, Kent; Westerlund, Olle - In: Journal of economic geography 23 (2023) 3, pp. 601-627

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Divergence of human capital in cities in the People's Republic of China : exploring complementarities and spatial agglomeration of the workforce with various skills

Liang, Wenquan; Lu, Ming - 2016

In cities, complementarity between a low-skilled and a high-skilled workforce can promote each other to improve labor productivity. In this study, we used earlier census data and 1% population survey data to examine the distribution of the skilled workforce in cities in the People's Republic of...

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Getting a first job : quality of the labor matching in french cities

Boualam, Brahim - 2014

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Balanced skills and the city : an analysis of the relationship between entrepreneurial skill balance, thickness and innovation

Bublitz, Elisabeth; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2013

Being a "jack-of-all-trades" increases the probability of running an entrepreneurial venture successfully; but what happens to "jack-of-few-trades" who lack sufficient skills? This paper investigates a possible compensation mechanism between balanced skills and cities, and how this compensatory...

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Skilled Foreign Labor, Urban Agglomeration, and Value Creation

Jiang, Hao; Parsons, Chris; Sun, Lin; Titman, Sheridan - 2023

This paper explores the connection between skilled foreign labor, urban agglomeration, and value creation through the lens of H-1B visa applications. We find that the spatial distribution of H-1B visas, which are awarded to highly skilled foreign-born workers, is heavily concentrated in a few...

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Labor market pooling and occupational agglomeration

Gabe, Todd M.; Abel, Jaison R. - 2010 - Rev.

This paper examines the micro-foundations of occupational agglomeration in U.S. metropolitan areas, with an emphasis on labor market pooling. Controlling for a wide range of occupational attributes, including proxies for the use of specialized machinery and for the importance of knowledge...

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Young people, skills and cities

Peri, Giovanni - 2001

Young highly educated workers developed in the 70 s and 80 s a preference for working in larger cities. As a consequence highly educated young workers in 1990 were over-represented in cities, in spite of the lower wage premium they earned for working in crowded metropolitan areas if compared to...

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Labor Market Pooling and Occupational Agglomeration

Gabe, Todd M. - 2010

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