We propose a theory of skill mobility across cities. It predicts the well documented city size-wage premium: the wage … distribution in large cities first-order stochastically dominates that in small cities. Yet, because this premium is reflected in … skilled disproportionately sort into the biggest cities, while those with medium skill levels sort into small cities. The …

substantial natural resource exports. Countries also attract more FDI if they have more medium-sized cities and primacy is not too … suffer from primacy. However, FDI is attracted if surrounding countries have fewer cities, restrictions on international … trade and low market potential (income per capita). We tentatively conclude that cities are important drivers of FDI and …

growth. On average, cities recovered their pre-Plague populations within two centuries. In addition, aggregate convergence …

advantage patterns for 22 cities and 4 regions for (a selection of) 83 sectors within The Netherlands. Our findings are as …

results to explain the big shift to WFH and to consider some implications for workers, organization, cities, and the pace of …

density. This bias can be accounted for by the location choices of large services firms that sort into big cities and large …

We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain … the fact that cities where manufacturing was initially more important experienced larger negative labor demand shocks. But … manufacturing jobs. Overall, 34% of former manufacturing hubs–defined as cities with an initial manufacturing employment share in …