Eeckhout, Jan; Pinheiro, Roberto; Schmidheiny, Kurt - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2013
. We prove that with extreme-skill complementarity, the skill distribution has fatter tails in large cities; with top …-skill complementarity, there is first-order stochastic dominance. Using the model to back out skills from wage and housing price data, we … consistent with extreme-skill complementarity: the productivity of high skilled workers and of the providers of low skilled …