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Provincial valuations of human capital in urban China, inter-regional inequality and the implicit value of a Guangdong hukou
Zax, Jeffrey - 2016
This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in … double, interpersonal inequality would decline by 40-50% and inter-provincial inequality would vanish. In all years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790074
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Provincial Valuations of Human Capital in Urban China, Inter-provincial Inequality and the Implicit Value of a Guangdong Hukou
Zax, Jeffrey S. - 2019
This paper assesses regional inequality in urban China. It predicts earnings for each worker in multiple provinces … been greater by between 42% and 83% and interpersonal inequality would have been less in all but 2013. If they had received … maximum predicted earnings in their home provinces, inter-provincial inequality would have vanished. Predicted earnings were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889562
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Human capital sorting : the "when" and "who" of sorting of talents to urban regions
Ahlin, Lina; Andersson, Martin; Thulin, Per - 2017
Sorting of high-ability workers is a main source of urban-rural disparities in economic outcomes. Less is known about when such human capital sorting occurs and who it involves. Using data on 15 cohorts of university graduates in Sweden, we demonstrate significant sorting to urban regions on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621227
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515100
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Natural amenities and the spatial distribution of Swiss income
Leuba, Joséphine - 2019 - Preliminary version: August 29, 2019
The present article describes how the spatial distribution of income in Switzerland is related to natural amenities. We explore the link between inequalities in Swiss municipalities and the presence of lakes, rivers, mountains, good accessibility and green amenities. By using fiscal data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062172
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Labor Migration, Human Capital Agglomeration and Regional Development in China
Fu, Yuming - 2011
labor migration in China. Upon accounting for regional differentials in skill-based compensation, cost-of-living, amenities …We estimate a skill-based directional migration model to assess the effects of regional human capital agglomeration on … the importance of human capital agglomeration benefits to disparate regional growth trajectories in China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121432
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Creativity, education or what? : on the measurement of regional human capital
Bode, Eckhardt; Pérez-Villar, Lucia - 2014
This paper substantiates the debate following Richard Florida’s suggestion to measure regional human capital by creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida’s notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that relates creativity to workers’ cognitive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406921
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Earnings differentials between immigrants and natives : the role of occupational attainment
Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-18
This paper brings new evidence to the existing literature on earnings differentials and returns to human capital for immigrants and natives. It is the first paper analysing this topic using data drawn from the Italian Labour Force Survey, a large nationally representative dataset. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526519
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Sorting and local wage and skill distributions in France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2012
migration including negative selection of migrants to less dense areas and positive selection towards denser areas. Nonetheless … migration, even in the long run, accounts for little of the skill differences between denser and less dense areas. Finally, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009536431
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Does Commuting Reduce Wage Disparities?
Hazans, Mihails - 2007
This paper shows that in the Baltic countries, commuting reduces urban-rural wage and employment disparities and increases national output. To quantify the effect of commuting on wage differentials, two sets of earnings functions are estimated (based on Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian Labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064348