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work (e.g., commuting) across metropolitan areas and metropolitan population sizes. Using detailed time diaries from the …
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The last decades have witnessed a revolution in manufacturing production characterized by increasing technology adoption and a strong expansion of international trade. Simultaneously, the income distribution has exhibited both polarization and concentration among the richest. Combining datasets...
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Economic growth might both increase and decrease income inequality, depending on the circumstances. The nature of this relationship matters at the city level as well. This paper examines the income-inequality relationship within U.S. metropolitan areas using cross-section and panel regression...
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This paper seeks to investigate the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. at the local labor market level, exploring whether the segregation of this group is a homogeneous phenomenon across the country or there are important disparities in the opportunities that these women meet...
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The U.S. population has become increasingly concentrated in large metropolitan areas. However, there are striking … tracking their job mobility rate, unemployment rate, income growth, population increase, net change in job-to-job mobility and … the city’s population. These results highlight that cities adopting well-targeted policies can accelerate the return to …
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We investigate the existence of wage premium due to cultural diversity across US cities. Using census data from 1970 to 1990, we find that at the urban level richer diversity is systematically associated with higher average nominal wages for white US-born males. We measure cultural diversity in...
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