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Firm-Worker Matching in Industrial Clusters
Figueiredo, Octávio; Guimarães, Paulo; Woodward, … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firmworkermatching process. Our method makes use of recent …
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People and Machines : A Look at the Evolving Relationship between Capital and Skill in Manufacturing 1860-1930 Using Immigration Shocks
Lafortune, Jeanne - 2015
This paper estimates the elasticity of substitution between capital and skill using variation across U.S. counties in immigration-induced skill-mix changes between 1860 and 1930. We find that capital began as a q-complement for skilled and unskilled workers, and then dramatically increased its...
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City Air or City Markets:Productivity Gains in Urban Areas
Krupka, Douglas J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number ofresearchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills incities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result,however, is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861141
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Human Capital Externalities and Employment Differences Across Metropolitan Areas of the U.S
Winters, John V. - 2012
It has been well documented that employment outcomes often differ considerably across areas. This paper examines the extent to which the local human capital level, measured as the share of prime age adults with a college degree, has positive external effects on labor force participation and...
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The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities : Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012
cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote … a generalised version of a tractable firm selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the …
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The Urban Wage Premium in Imperfect Labour Markets
Hirsch, Boris - 2016
Using administrative data for West Germany, this paper investigates whether part of the urban wage premium stems from fierce competition in thick labour markets. We first establish that employers possess less wage-setting power in denser markets. Local differences in wage-setting power predict...
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Beyond Qualifications : Returns to Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Skills in Colombia
Acosta, Pablo A. - 2015
This paper examines the relationship between individuals' skills and labor market outcomes for the working-age population of Colombia's urban areas. Using a 2012 unique household survey, the paper finds that cognitive skills (aptitudes to perform mental tasks such as comprehension or reasoning)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013598
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Does Longer Compulsory Education Equalize Schooling by Gender and Rural/Urban Residence?
Kïrdar, Murat G. - 2014
This study examines the effects of the extension of compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years in Turkey in 1997 – which involved substantial investment in school infrastructure – on schooling outcomes and, in particular, on the equality of these outcomes between men and women, and urban and...
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The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas
Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2015
We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are "too small" to follow Zipf's law
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023013
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Urban Density and Covid-19
Carozzi, Felipe - 2020
This paper estimates the link between population density and COVID-19 spread and severity in the contiguous United States. To overcome confounding factors, we use two Instrumental Variable (IV) strategies that exploit geological features and historical populations to induce exogenous variation...
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