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City Air or City Markets : Productivity Gains in Urban Areas
Krupka, Douglas J. - 2021
Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number of researchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills in cities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result, however, is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325219
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Urban wage premium increasing with education level : identification of agglomeration effects for Norway
Carlsen, Fredrik; Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2012 - First draft: February 15, 2012
the agglomeration effect is hard to identify. Recent advances make use of individual level data to separate out sorting … population in Norway with complete description of their education level. The data allow for estimation of the agglomeration … effect for different education groups and the results show that agglomeration economies are increasing with education level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515100
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Migration and Regional Sorting of Skills
Tano, Sofia - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014
This thesis consists of an introductory part and four papers. <p> Paper [I] estimates jointly the choice of whether to enroll in education and the choice of location among young people. Being a particularly mobile group, the location choices of young individuals shape much of the regional...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019145
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Human Capital Externalities and the Urban WagePremium: Two Literatures and their Interrelations
Halfdanarson, Benedikt; Heuermann, Daniel F.; Südekum, Jens - Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in … - 2008
In this paper we survey the recent developments in two empirical literatures at the crossroadsof labor and urban economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) andabout the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the methods and main results of eachof these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868447
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City Air or City Markets: Productivity Gains in Urban Areas
Krupka, Douglas James - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number of researchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills in cities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result, however, is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703768
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Income convergence, migration and geography: Distribution analysis of regions in Norway
Stokke, Hildegunn; Rattso, Jorn - 2010
the recent emphasis on agglomeration effects and divergence. The population flows to urban centers do not generate growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332311
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Income convergence, migration and geography : distribution analysis of regions in Norway
Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2010
the recent emphasis on agglomeration effects and divergence. The population flows to urban centers do not generate growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012653742
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Is India’s Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William; Goswami, Arti Grover - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2012
This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540907
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Agglomeration Economies and the Urban Wage Premium in Australia
Meekes, Jordy - 2021
Understanding the benefits of dense agglomerations is important for decisions on where to live. This paper is the first to quantify the economic impact of urban density on individual wages, referred to as the urban wage premium, in Australia. By combining Household Income and Labour Dynamics in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324364
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Human Capital Externalities and the Urban Wage Premium: Two Literatures and their Interrelations
Halfdanarson, Benedikt; Heuermann, Daniel F.; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In this paper we survey the recent developments in two empirical literatures at the crossroads of labor and urban economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) and about the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the methods and main results of each of these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703584