A key driver of urbanization is the pursuit of economic opportunities in cities. One such opportunity is the promise of higher wages in larger cities, a phenomenon known as the urban wage premium. While an urban wage premium has been well-documented among U.S. metropolitan areas, little is known...

Empirical research on cities starts with a spatial equilibrium condition: workers and firms are assumed to be indifferent across space. This condition implies that research on cities is different from research on countries, and that work on places within countries needs to consider population,...

Empirical research on cities starts with a spatial equilibrium condition: workers and firms are assumed to be indifferent across space. This condition implies that research on cities is different from research on countries, and that work on places within countries needs to consider population,...

Im Jahr 1932 hat der spätere Politologe Arnold Brecht postuliert, dass ein positiver Zusammenhang zwischen Bevölkerungsmassierung und Staatsausgaben besteht. In diesem Beitrag wird untersucht, ob mehr als 75 Jahre später dieser Zusammenhang immer noch gilt. Während Brecht nur die Effekte von...