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administrative data, we define local labour markets (LLMs) based on the worker's commuting outcomes, gender and educational … effect of employment density on workers' wages increases in the level of regional aggregation, explained by larger … positive agglomeration externalities on job matching, with more modest losses in wages and again larger density effects at …
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We analyze the impact of wage taxation on the workplace choices of and the commuting costs borne by individuals in an … that individuals work in the region in which their after-tax wage net of commuting costs is the highest, we compute the … that optimality calls for the urban and the rural governments to subsidize the two wages …
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Using the data covering the time period from 1996 till 2011, I estimate a spatial autoregressive model of wages' growth … rates across Russian cities. I find that wages in Russian cities exhibit convergence. I also test whether city population … wages, but diverge in size. …
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Recent empirical tests for a spatial wage structure have confirmed regional accessibility to be a significant determinant for income, although estimates vary considerably with respect to the geographic scope of estimated demand linkages. Our study is the first to estimate spatial demand linkages...
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pooling. Estimating wage functions we find that job turnover depresses wages at the regional and the firm level, indicating …
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This paper tests two major competing theories explaining the spatial concentration of economic activity, namely new economic geography theory (NEG) which emphasizes varying market potential, and urban economics theory (UE) in which the main emphasis is on producer service linkages. Using wage...
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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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selection wage theories. According to selection wage theories employers offer above-average wages in order to attract more …
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agglomeration pattern of entrepreneurs and the commuting pattern of heterogeneous workers. Labor heterogeneity is a source of … entrepreneurs tend to concentrate to a region hence regional labor markets are united with interregional commuting when (i) the … commuting cost or (ii) the adjustment cost of labor heterogeneity is low, and when (iii) the input of heterogeneous labor is …
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