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The Sources of the Urban Wage Premium by Worker Skills
Andersson, Martin; Klaesson, Johan; Larsson, Johan P - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014
We estimate the respective importance of spatial sorting and agglomeration economies in explaining the urban wage premium for workers with different sets of skills. Sorting is the main source of the wage premium. Agglomeration economies are in general small, but are larger for workers with...
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Spatial sorting with heterogeneous firms and heterogeneous sectors
Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 46 (2014) C, pp. 42-56
The present paper focuses on spatial sorting as a mechanism behind the well-established fact that there is a central region productivity premium. Using a model of heterogeneous firms that can move between regions, Baldwin and Okubo (2006) show how more productive firms sort themselves to the...
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Spatial Relocation with Heterogeneous Firms and Heterogeneous Sectors
Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
The present paper focuses on sorting as a mechanism behind the well-established fact that there is a central region productivity premium. Using a model of heterogeneous firms that can move between regions, Baldwin and Okubo (2006) show how more productive firms sort themselves to the large core...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784724
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What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution
Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo - Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma … - 2012
This paper aims at disentangling the role played by different theoretical explanations in accounting for the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from low-to-high-density areas in Italy, using quantile regression and individual panel data to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010908203
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"What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution"
Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2012
This paper aims at disentangling the role played by different theoretical explanations in accounting for the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from low-to-high-density areas in Italy, using quantile regression and individual panel data to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010612989
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What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution
Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper aims at disentangling the role played by different explanations on the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from lower to higher density areas in Italy, using quantile regressions and individual data. The results show that unskilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010722700
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"What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution"
Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo - Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada (IREA), … - 2012
This paper aims at disentangling the role played by different theoretical explanations in accounting for the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from low-to-high-density areas in Italy, using quantile regression and individual panel data to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635872
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Farther on Down the Road: Transport Costs, Trade and Urban Growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Storeygard, Adam - Department of Economics, Tufts University
transport costs of -0.25 at that distance. Moreover, the effect differs by the surface of roads between cities. Cities connected … to the port by paved roads are chiefly affected by transport costs to the port, while cities connected to the port by … unpaved roads are more affected by connections to secondary centers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010932981
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The Brasília Experiment: Road Access and the Spatial Pattern of Long-term Local Development in Brazil
Bird, Julia; Straub, Stéphane - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014
North, in line with predictions in terms of agglomeration economies. Over the period, roads are shown to account for half of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004740
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International and Interregional Differences in Employment and Unemployment Rates
Aquino, Antonio - In: Economia Internazionale / International Economics 61 (2008) 1, pp. 1-24
In the mid nineties of last century unemployment was perceived in several countries as one of the most disruptive social problems. Several economists, sociologists and policymakers proposed of reducing by law working hours as the only effective strategy for diminishing unemployment. In the last...
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