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We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent...
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cuts, both with or without over-education effects. Introducing over-education changes substantially the employment …
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The division of labor between and within countries is driven by two fundamental forces, comparative advantage and increasing returns. We set up a simple Ricardian model with a Marshallian input sharing mechanism to study their interplay. The key insight that emerges is that the interaction...
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employment growth. This result is robust to a variety of other explanations including industry composition, routinisation, and …This research applies a task-based approach to measure and interpret changes in the employment structure of the 168 … largest US cities in the period 1990-2009. As a result of technological change some tasks can be placed at distance, while …
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It has been well documented that employment outcomes often differ considerably across areas. This paper examines the … external effects on labor force participation and employment for U.S. metropolitan area residents. The empirical results … employment for both women and men. We also find that less educated workers generally receive the largest external benefits …
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' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity … emphasizes the task content of production. Our ultimate objective is to open this black box of tasks and skills at the … suggestive empirical analysis of the relationship between within-industry dispersion in productivity and tasks and skills. We …
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abstract tasks, and substitutes for unskilled workers in performing routine tasks. When we use our production function …
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We use household surveys from 1995, 2002, and 2007 to examine how changes in job structure contributed to China's rising urban wage inequality, considering three job characteristics: occupation, industry, and firm ownership. The explanatory power of job structure for wage inequality increased...
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Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...
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We examine how city size affect wage levels of cities (agglomeration externality) and how it influence surrounding cities (spill-over effect) in China for the period between 1995 and 2009. Using spatial fixed-effect panel data models and allowing for endogenous and exogenous spatial dependence,...
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