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Cities and tasks
Koster, Hans; Ozgen, Ceren - 2021
repetitive and automatable), meaning that jobs cover a larger spectrum of tasks. We then explore how the routine intensity of … jobs affects the urban wage premium. We find that the urban wage premium is higher for workers performing non-routine tasks …, particularly analytic tasks, while it is absent for workers in routine task intensive jobs. These findings also hold within skill …
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Concrete agglomeration benefits : do roads improve urban connections or just attract more people?
Gerritse, Michiel; Arribas-Bel, Daniel - In: Regional studies 52 (2018) 8, pp. 1134-1149
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Smart cities are big cities : comparative advantage in Chinese cities
Hu, Shiwei; Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2014
The literature on China indicates that the concentration of economic activities in China is less than in other industrialized countries. Institutional limits are largely held responsible for this finding (e.g. the Hukou system); firms and workers are not able to take full advantage of the...
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The urban wage premium and spatial sorting on observed and unobserved ability
Eliasson, Kent; Westerlund, Olle - In: Journal of economic geography 23 (2023) 3, pp. 601-627
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Race-specific urban wage premia and the black-white wage gap
Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans; Fu, Shihe; Ross, Stephen L. - In: Journal of urban economics 108 (2018), pp. 141-153
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Divergence of human capital in cities in the People's Republic of China : exploring complementarities and spatial agglomeration of the workforce with various skills
Liang, Wenquan; Lu, Ming - 2016
In cities, complementarity between a low-skilled and a high-skilled workforce can promote each other to improve labor productivity. In this study, we used earlier census data and 1% population survey data to examine the distribution of the skilled workforce in cities in the People's Republic of...
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Local labor market size and qualification mismatch
Berlingieri, Francesco - In: Journal of economic geography 19 (2019) 6, pp. 1261-1286
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Getting a first job : quality of the labor matching in french cities
Boualam, Brahim - 2014
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Balanced skills and the city : an analysis of the relationship between entrepreneurial skill balance, thickness and innovation
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2013
Being a "jack-of-all-trades" increases the probability of running an entrepreneurial venture successfully; but what happens to "jack-of-few-trades" who lack sufficient skills? This paper investigates a possible compensation mechanism between balanced skills and cities, and how this compensatory...
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Skilled Foreign Labor, Urban Agglomeration, and Value Creation
Jiang, Hao; Parsons, Chris; Sun, Lin; Titman, Sheridan - 2023
This paper explores the connection between skilled foreign labor, urban agglomeration, and value creation through the lens of H-1B visa applications. We find that the spatial distribution of H-1B visas, which are awarded to highly skilled foreign-born workers, is heavily concentrated in a few...
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