Identifying Human-Capital Externalities: Theory with Applications

Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni

doi:10.1111/j.1467-937x.2006.00380.x

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“…There is nonetheless good evidence of imperfect substitutability across skill groups. See for instance Ciccone and Peri (2006) for a related application to us states. The first difficulty in this case is that employment in each skill group now matters to determine wages in an area (that is, B akt becomes a function of several measures of employment).…”

Section: Estimating Workers' Skillsmentioning

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Sorting and local wage and skill distributions in France

Combes

Duranton

Gobillon

et al. 2012

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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This paper provides descriptive evidence about the distribution of wages and skills in denser and less dense employment areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser areas are more skilled. There is also strong over-representation of workers with particularly high and low skills in denser areas. These features are consistent with patterns of 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 find marked differences across age groups and some suggestions that much of the skill differences across areas can be explained by differences between occupational groups rather than within. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public.IZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. ABSTRACT Sorting and Local Wage and Skill Distributions in France *This paper provides descriptive evidence about the distribution of wages and skills in denser and less dense employment areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser areas are more skilled. There is also strong over-representation of workers with particularly high and low skills in denser areas. These features are consistent with patterns of 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 find marked differences across age groups and some suggestions that much of the skill differences across areas can be explained by differences between occupational groups rather than within.JEL Classification: J31, J61, R12, R23

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Section: Estimating Workers' Skillsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sorting and local wage and skill distributions in France

Combes

Duranton

Gobillon

et al. 2012

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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“…Troisièmement, notre spécification suppose une substituabilité parfaite entre salariés (en particulier, à l'intérieur des entreprises), même si des articles montrent que ce type de complémentarité entre salariés existe (Ciccone et Peri, 2006, Moretti, 2004. Nous laissons ce problème de côté étant donné qu'il est difficile de prendre en compte la complémentarité dans l'analyse et que ce n'est pas le sujet de notre étude.…”

Section: Estimation De La Productivité Des Salariésunclassified

Salaires et salariés en Île-de-France

Combes¹,

Duranton²,

Gobillon³

2015

Revue Économique

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International audienceCe travail compare les distributions de salaires et de qualifications de l’Île-de-France et du reste du pays. Les salaires sont plus élevés en Île-de-France de 24 %. Ces différences relèvent pour le quart de qualifications plus élevées et pour le reste d’une plus grande productivité francilienne. Nous montrons aussi que les disparités de salaires sont beaucoup plus fortes à l’intérieur de l’Île-de-France et reflètent alors principalement de plus grandes disparités de qualifications entre salariés franciliens que dans le reste de la France. Les choix migratoires faits par les salariés n’expliquent qu’une faible part de ces différences. Les différences entre l’Île-de-France et le reste du pays se retrouvent à un degré moindre quand nous comparons Paris et sa petite couronne à la grande couronne parisienne

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“…Using plant-level productivity data, he finds a spillover effect on productivity in the range of 0.5-0.7% for a one-percentage point increase in the college share by comparing firms in high-and low-skilled cities (Moretti, 2004c). Ciccone and Peri (2006) also use aggregated data on the regional level, as they criticize the individual approach as being not feasible to identify externalities due to the non-inclusion of downward sloping aggregate demand for human capital.…”

Section: External Effects Of Education: Theory and Existing Evidencementioning

confidence: 99%