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agglomeration economies, and its consequences for the city-size wage gap. After 15 years of work experience in Munich the cumulative …
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the agglomeration effect is hard to identify. Recent advances make use of individual level data to separate out sorting … population in Norway with complete description of their education level. The data allow for estimation of the agglomeration … effect for different education groups and the results show that agglomeration economies are increasing with education level …
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It has been well documented that employment outcomes often differ considerably across areas. This paper examines the extent to which the local human capital level, measured as the share of prime age adults with a college degree, has positive external effects on labor force participation and...
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The aim of this paper is to examine the manner and extent to which worker skill type affects agglomeration economies …'s degree. Workers with college training in information-oriented and technical fields (e.g. STEM areas such as Engineering …, Physical Sciences, and Economics) are associated with economically important within-field agglomeration economies and also …
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This paper provides an empirical analysis of the extent to which people in different occupations locate near one another, or coagglomerate. We construct pairwise Ellison-Glaeser coagglomeration indices for U.S. occupations and use these measures to investigate the factors influencing the...
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Automation risk of workers prevails less in large cities compared to small cities, but little is known about the drivers of this emerging urban phenomenon. We examine the role of cities on changes in automation risk through individual careers of workers by separating labour mobility to a city...
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Learning English is a potentially profitable investment for immigrants in the U.S.: while there are initial costs, the subsequent benefits include the ability to communicate with the majority of the population, potentially leading to better paying jobs and economic success in the new country....
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Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number of researchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills in cities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result, however, is that...
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