. We prove that with extreme-skill complementarity, the skill distribution has fatter tails in large cities; with top … find robust evidence of fat tails in large cities. Big cities have big inequality. This pattern of spatial sorting is …We investigate the role of complementarities in production and skill mobility across cities. We propose a general …

. We prove that with extreme-skill complementarity, the skill distribution has fatter tails in large cities; with top … find robust evidence of fat tails in large cities. Big cities have big inequality. This pattern of spatial sorting is …We investigate the role of complementarities in production and skill mobility across cities. We propose a general …

. We prove that with extreme-skill complementarity, the skill distribution has fatter tails in large cities; with top … find robust evidence of fat tails in large cities. Big cities have big inequality. This pattern of spatial sorting is …We investigate the role of complementarities in production and skill mobility across cities. We propose a general …

We propose a theory of skill mobility across cities. It predicts the well documented city size-wage premium: the wage … distribution in large cities first-order stochastically dominates that in small cities. Yet, because this premium is reflected in … skilled disproportionately sort into the biggest cities, while those with medium skill levels sort into small cities. The …

We propose a theory of skill mobility across cities. It predicts the well documented city size--wage premium: the wage … distribution in large cities first-order stochastically dominates that in small cities. Yet, because this premium is reflected in … skilled disproportionately sort into the biggest cities, while those with medium skill levels sort into small cities. The …

We propose a theory of skill mobility across cities. It predicts the well documented city size-wage premium: the wage … distribution in large cities first-order stochastically dominates that in small cities. Yet, because this premium is reflected in … skilled disproportionately sort into the biggest cities, while those with medium skill levels sort into small cities. The …

We analyze the role of optimal income taxation across different local labor markets. Should labor in large cities be … taxed differently than in small cities? We find that a planner who needs to raise revenue and is constrained by free … mobility of labor across cities does not choose equal taxes for cities of different sizes. The optimal tax schedule is location …

We analyze the role of optimal income taxation across different local labor markets. Should labor in large cities be … taxed differently than in small cities? We find that a planner who needs to raise revenue and is constrained by free … mobility of labor across cities does not choose equal taxes for cities of different sizes. The optimal tax schedule is location …

We analyze the role of optimal income taxation across different local labor markets. Should labor in large cities be … taxed differently than in small cities? We find that a planner who needs to raise revenue and is constrained by free … mobility of labor across cities does not choose equal taxes for cities of different sizes. The optimal tax schedule is location …