We use data from British Cities to examine the extent of the urban wage growth premium. We demonstrate the existence of a premium for wage levels, but not for wage growth. City living does have some impact on wage growth, however. Specifically, we show that workers who have at some point lived...

Since the 1950s, there has been a steady decentralization of entry-level jobs towards the suburbs of American cities, while racial minorities ?and particularly blacks? have remained in city centers. In this context, the spatial mismatch hypothesis argues that because the residential locations of...