WHAT DRIVES THE URBAN WAGE PREMIUM? EVIDENCE ALONG THE WAGE DISTRIBUTION

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作者：
Matano, Alessia [1 ,2 ]
Naticchioni, Paolo [3 ,4 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Barcelona, AQR IREA, Avinguda Diagonal 690, Barcelona 08034, Spain
[2] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dept Econ & Social Anal, Rome, Italy
[3] Univ Rome Tre, Dept Polit Sci, Via Gabriello Chiabrera 199, I-00145 Rome, Italy
[4] IZA, Navarra, Spain
来源：
JOURNAL OF REGIONAL SCIENCE | 2016年 / 56卷 / 02期
关键词：
QUANTILE REGRESSION; JOB FLOWS; CITIES; PRODUCTIVITY; WORKERS; GROWTH;
D O I：
10.1111/jors.12235
中图分类号：
F [经济];
学科分类号：
02 ;
摘要：
This paper aims at disentangling the role played by different explanations on the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from lower to higher density areas in Italy, using quantile regressions and individual data. The results show that unskilled workers benefit more from a wage premium accruing over time, while skilled workers enjoy a wage premium when they migrate as well as a wage increase over time. Further, we find that for unskilled workers the wage growth over time is mainly due to human capital accumulation in line with the learning hypothesis, while for skilled workers the wage growth is mainly explained by the coordination hypothesis, i.e., cities enhance the probability of better matches between workers and firms.
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页码：191 / 209
页数：19
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