local wages with household data for the US in 1990 and discover the city density is much stronger in explaining local premia … commodity bundle. The cities population, land rent and footprint expand and its density rises. We test for an amenity effect in …

Have workers stopped moving to the highest-density, highest-productivity places in the country because of a decline in …

This paper is concerned with the relationship between wages and unemployment. Using UK regions and individuals as the … unemployment and wages or wage changes? Second, can we identify the relationship completely by looking at regional wages and … regional unemployment or do regional wages depend on aggregate unemployment as well? Third, are wages influenced only by the …

Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …

employment outcomes along multiple dimensions. On average, stayers earn lower annual and hourly wages and work in less educated …

the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have … that the wages of return migrants are larger than those that the migrants would have obtained had they not migrated. …