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"Human capital-based theories of cities suggest that large, economically diverse urban agglomerations increase worker productivity by increasing the rate at which individuals acquire skills. One largely unexplored implication of this theory is that workers in big cities should see faster growth...
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We use Japanese prefectural wage and land price data to estimate the magnitude of agglomeration effects in … manufacturing and finance. We also examine the range of agglomeration effects by estimating the extent to which they diminish with … distance, using a specification that encompasses the polar cases of purely local agglomeration economies, on the one hand, and …
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Using U.S. Census microdata, the authors show that, on average, workers change occupation and industry less in more densely populated areas. The result is robust to standard demographic controls, as well as to including aggregate measures of human capital and sectoral mix. Analysis of the...
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We investigate the spatial extent of agglomeration economies across the wage earnings distribution using economic mass … away from the establishment. The spatial extent of agglomeration economies is similar across the wage earnings distribution …
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Human capital-based theories of cities suggest that large, economically diverse urban agglomerations increase worker productivity by increasing the rate at which individuals acquire skills. One largely unexplored implication of this theory is that workers in big cities should see faster growth...
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There are several hypotheses why urban scale affects wages. Most focus on agglomeration economies that increase labor …
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We analyze the effect of working from home on the agglomeration economies of large cities and the aggregate … empirical evidence in our paper points to weakened agglomeration economies in large cities among professions with the highest … agglomeration effect in large cities is at least partially a result of reduced occurrence of interactive activities …
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