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Cities and tasks
Koster, Hans; Ozgen, Ceren - 2021
repetitive and automatable), meaning that jobs cover a larger spectrum of tasks. We then explore how the routine intensity of … jobs affects the urban wage premium. We find that the urban wage premium is higher for workers performing non-routine tasks …, particularly analytic tasks, while it is absent for workers in routine task intensive jobs. These findings also hold within skill …
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The urban wage premium and spatial sorting on observed and unobserved ability
Eliasson, Kent; Westerlund, Olle - In: Journal of economic geography 23 (2023) 3, pp. 601-627
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Balanced skills and the city : an analysis of the relationship between entrepreneurial skill balance, thickness and innovation
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2013
Being a "jack-of-all-trades" increases the probability of running an entrepreneurial venture successfully; but what happens to "jack-of-few-trades" who lack sufficient skills? This paper investigates a possible compensation mechanism between balanced skills and cities, and how this compensatory...
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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
In cities, complementarity between a low-skilled and a high-skilled workforce can promote each other to improve labor productivity. In this study, we used earlier census data and 1% population survey data to examine the distribution of the skilled workforce in cities in the People's Republic of...
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Getting a first job : quality of the labor matching in french cities
Boualam, Brahim - 2014
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Local labor market size and qualification mismatch
Berlingieri, Francesco - In: Journal of economic geography 19 (2019) 6, pp. 1261-1286
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Skilled Foreign Labor, Urban Agglomeration, and Value Creation
Jiang, Hao; Parsons, Chris; Sun, Lin; Titman, Sheridan - 2023
This paper explores the connection between skilled foreign labor, urban agglomeration, and value creation through the lens of H-1B visa applications. We find that the spatial distribution of H-1B visas, which are awarded to highly skilled foreign-born workers, is heavily concentrated in a few...
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Cities, lights, and skills in developing economies
Dingel, Jonathan I.; Miscio, Antonio; Davis, Donald R. - In: Journal of urban economics 125 (2021), pp. 1-20
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Cities, lights, and skills in developing economies
Dingel, Jonathan; Miscio, Antonio; Davis, Donald R. - 2020
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IT and urban polarizatioin
Eeckhout, Jan; Hedtrich, Christoph; Pinheiro, Roberto - 2021
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