Selection in initial and return migration: Evidence from moves across Spanish cities

Human capital sorting: The “when” and “who” of the sorting of educated workers to urban regions

“…Matano and Naticchioni () look at migrants from low‐ to high‐density areas in Italy and find that low‐skilled workers receive a dynamic urban wage premium, whereas highly skilled workers have both a static and dynamic premium. De la Roca () finds that migrants are positively selected mainly on observable characteristics and, hence, that sorting on unobservable characteristics may not be as important. De la Roca, Ottaviano, & Puga, try to untangle both theoretically and empirically why there appears to be so little sorting on ability once observable characteristics are taken into account.…”

“…An individual who had located in an urban region prior to labor market entry would then not be identified in the analysis. De la Roca () points to the possibility that sorting may occur if better schools are located in bigger cities, although this is not explicitly investigated.…”

Education, experience, and urban wage premium

“…Wage growth seems to have a substantial between-job component (Wheeler, 2006;Yankow, 2006), and workers at least partly keep wage gains when moving to other regions, indicating that returns to work experience in urban areas are portable (D'Costa and Overman, 2014;De la Roca and Puga, 2014). De la Roca (2011) expands the analysis by looking at both initial and return migration.…”

Workforce composition, productivity and pay: the role of firms in wage inequality

“…In other words, such firms compete more intensively for skilled workers, which strengthens the workers' bargaining position. Indeed, the bargaining position of low-skilled workers has tended to weaken as they tend to be most exposed to the threat of automation, the decentralisation of collective bargaining, weaker employment protection or reduced generosity of unemployment benefits (Alvarez et al, 2018[19]; Coudin, Maillard and To, 2018 [33]; Guertzgen, 2009[34]; Ramos, Sanromá and Simón, 2018 [35]).…”