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Provincial Valuations of Human Capital in Urban China, Inter-provincial Inequality and the Implicit Value of a Guangdong Hukou
Zax, Jeffrey S. - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889562
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Human capital sorting : the "when" and "who" of sorting of talents to urban regions
Ahlin, Lina; Andersson, Martin; Thulin, Per - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621227
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Labor Migration, Human Capital Agglomeration and Regional Development in China
Fu, Yuming - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121432
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Creativity, education or what? : on the measurement of regional human capital
Bode, Eckhardt; Pérez-Villar, Lucia - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406921
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Earnings differentials between immigrants and natives : the role of occupational attainment
Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-18
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526519
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Human Capital Externalities and the Urban Wage Premium : Two Literatures and Their Interrelations
Halfdanarson, Benedikt; Heuermann, Daniel F.; Suedekum, Jens - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325233
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Human Capital Accrual, Skill Complementarity, and Urban Migration : New Evidence from China
Fu, Yuming; Gabriel, Stuart A. - 2014
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216119
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Human Capital Externalities and the Urban WagePremium: Two Literatures and their Interrelations
Halfdanarson, Benedikt; Heuermann, Daniel F.; Südekum, Jens - Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in … - 2008
In this paper we survey the recent developments in two empirical literatures at the crossroadsof labor and urban economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) andabout the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the methods and main results of eachof these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868447
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Divergence of human capital in cities in the People's Republic of China : exploring complementarities and spatial agglomeration of the workforce with various skills
Liang, Wenquan; Lu, Ming - 2016
workforce in cities in the People's Republic of China (PRC) along with its changes, and drew the following three conclusions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011488140
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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives
Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704320