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This paper assesses regional inequality in urban China. It predicts earnings for each worker in multiple provinces … been greater by between 42% and 83% and interpersonal inequality would have been less in all but 2013. If they had received … maximum predicted earnings in their home provinces, inter-provincial inequality would have vanished. Predicted earnings were …
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Sorting of high-ability workers is a main source of urban-rural disparities in economic outcomes. Less is known about when such human capital sorting occurs and who it involves. Using data on 15 cohorts of university graduates in Sweden, we demonstrate significant sorting to urban regions on...
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labor migration in China. Upon accounting for regional differentials in skill-based compensation, cost-of-living, amenities …We estimate a skill-based directional migration model to assess the effects of regional human capital agglomeration on … the importance of human capital agglomeration benefits to disparate regional growth trajectories in China …
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This paper substantiates the debate following Richard Florida’s suggestion to measure regional human capital by creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida’s notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that relates creativity to workers’ cognitive and...
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This paper brings new evidence to the existing literature on earnings differentials and returns to human capital for immigrants and natives. It is the first paper analysing this topic using data drawn from the Italian Labour Force Survey, a large nationally representative dataset. We show that...
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In this paper we survey the recent developments in two empirical literatures at the crossroads of labor and urban economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) and about the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the methods and main results of each of these two...
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-to-urban migration in China. Specifically, the research evaluates whether Chinese urbanization following the 1990s liberalization of … data set to estimate skill-based selection of Chinese migrants in the context of a utility-maximizing directional migration … in China which sustained urban segregation in occupation and social interactions to the disadvantage of low …
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This paper focuses on estimating interregional human capital migration flows in Spain, based on the assumption of key … hypothesis on data and temporal characteristics of educated population migration flows. The results point to the increasing … intensity of medium and high educated gross migration flows and confirm Madrid, the Basque Country and Catalonia as the three …
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workforce in cities in the People's Republic of China (PRC) along with its changes, and drew the following three conclusions …
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to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …
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