The urban inequality in Vietnam has declined in the 1990s. Using the regression-based decomposition methods (Fields, 2003; Yun, 2006), we identify the contributing factors and distinguish between changes of the inequality due to changing returns to characteristics and distribution of these...

This article analyzes determinants of growth across labor markets in the United States, using a production function approach based on four inputs: labor, manufacturing investment, human capital investment, and public capital investment. We find little role for public capital investment in...

What is the effect of an increase in the overall level of human capital on the economy of a city? Although much is known about the private return to education, much less is known about the more important question of what happens to productivity, wages and land prices when the aggregate stock of...