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The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities : Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012
interactions that increase productivity), possibly reinforced by localised natural advantage. To distinguish between them, we nest … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the … cannot explain spatial productivity differences. This result holds across sectors, city size thresholds, establishment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107198
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001328
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Institutional Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil
Naritomi, Joana - 2014
governance practices and less access to justice. The colonial rent-seeking episodes are also correlated with lower provision of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070992
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Living and Working in Ethnic Enclaves : Language Proficiency of Immigrants in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Beckhusen, Julia - 2012
Learning English is a potentially profitable investment for immigrants in the U.S.: while there are initial costs, the subsequent benefits include the ability to communicate with the majority of the population, potentially leading to better paying jobs and economic success in the new country....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110185
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The Economic Diversity of Immigration Across the United States
Friedberg, Rachel M. - 2009
While it is well known that some areas of the United States receive more immigrants than others, less is understood about the extent to which the character of immigration varies as well. There is much broader geographic variation in the skill and demographic composition of immigrants than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154488
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The Power of Hydroelectric Dams : Agglomeration Spillovers
Severnini, Edson - 2014
How much of the geographic clustering of economic activity is attributable to agglomeration spillovers as opposed to natural advantages? I present evidence on this question using data on the long-run effects of large scale hydroelectric dams built in the U.S. over the 20th century, obtained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055563
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - 2021
accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular, in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325091
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829212
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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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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
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