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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
Income levels are higher in cities. The evidence for the income gap between urban and rural areas is overwhelming, but the agglomeration effect is hard to identify. Recent advances make use of individual level data to separate out sorting and instrumentation to handle the endogeneity of...
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Exploiting Regional Heterogeneity to Test Wage Setting Theories - Firm Size Wage Effects in Urban and Rural Regions
Ludsteck, Johannes - 2014
selection wage theories. According to selection wage theories employers offer above-average wages in order to attract more … predictions arise in models of dynamic monopsony. The empirical implication, that firm-size wage effects should be more pronounced … monopsony and selection wage theories. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399997
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Exploiting Regional Heterogeneity to Test Wage Setting Theories - Firm Size Wage Effects in Urban and Rural Regions
Ludsteck, Johannes - European Regional Science Association - 2014
selection wage theories. According to selection wage theories employers offer above-average wages in order to attract more … predictions arise in models of dynamic monopsony. The empirical implication, that firm-size wage effects should be more pronounced … monopsony and selection wage theories. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076053
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Skill wage gap in Brazil : 1980 - 2000
Freire, Tiago - 2011
-urban migration on city wages. Our results contribute to the evaluation of regional policies, as recent research has found that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548242
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The urban wage premium in imperfect labour markets
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2016
markets. Local differences in wage-setting power predict 1.1–1.6% higher wages from a 100 log points increase in population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420490
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The urban wage premium in imperfect labour markets
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2016
markets. Local differences in wage-setting power predict 1.1-1.6% higher wages from a 100 log points increase in population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449766
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The urban wage premium in imperfect labour markets
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Manning, Alan; … - 2019
markets. Local differences in wage-setting power predict 1.8-2.1% higher wages from a 100 log points increase in population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105107
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Agglomerations, tasks and wage growth
Perl, Maximilian - 2023
Wage growth is stronger in larger cities, but this relationship holds exclusively for non-manual workers. Using rich German administrative data, I study the heterogeneity in the pecuniary value of big city experience, a measure of dynamic agglomeration economies, and its consequences for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014228358
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What explains the urban wage premium? : sorting, non-portable or portable agglomeration effects?
Frings, Hanna; Kamb, Rebecca - 2021
Using administrative data for West Germany, we study the relative importance of different determinants of the urban wage premium. More explicitly, we distinguish worker sorting, as well as portable and non-portable agglomeration effects. Our results indicate that worker sorting explains about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596338
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Demographics, labor market power and the spatial equilibrium
Furbach, Nina - 2024
This paper studies how demographics affect aggregate labor market power, the urban wage premium and the spatial concentration of population, I develop a quantitative spatial model in which labor market competitiveness depends on the demographic composition of the local workforce, Using highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014490369