The attenuation of human capital spillovers

Rosenthal, Stuart S.; Strange, William C.

doi:10.1016/j.jue.2008.02.006

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“…Employment areas are meant to capture local labour markets and most of them correspond to a city and its catchment area or to a metropolitan area. This choice of relatively small areas (on average 1,500 km 2 ) is consistent with previous findings in the agglomeration literature that differences in area productivity are largely determined by agglomeration effects at small spatial scale (e.g., Rosenthal and Strange, 2008). In addition, extant literature on French data has favoured employment areas (e.g., Combes et al, 2008, Combes, Duranton, Gobillon, and Roux, 2010, Combes et al, 2011b over alternative units such as urban areas which do not fully cover France.…”

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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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Sorting and local wage and skill distributions in France

Combes

Duranton

Gobillon

et al. 2012

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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“…Studies based on US data (NLSY, PSID or PUM) tend to find that the urban wage premium is increasing in education/skills (Glaeser and Mare, 2001;Wheeler, 2001;Gould, 2007;Rosenthal and Strange, 2008;Bacalod et al, 2009). Exceptions are Adamson et al (2004) who find a nonlinear relation between the urban wage premium and education level, and Lee (2010) who finds that the urban wage premium is negative for high-skilled health workers and positive for less skilled health workers.…”

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“…On the other hand, low educated persons may have a higher capacity for learning because they have a lower stock of capital (Wheeler, 2004;Di Addario and Patacchini, 2008;Rosenthal and Strange, 2008;Matano and Naticchioni, 2012).…”

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Education, experience, and urban wage premium

Carlsen

Rattsø

Stokke

2016

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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Recent studies investigate the urban wage premium associated with education and work experience. We study the effect of work experience and firm tenure across education groups. All education groups benefit more from working in cities, and the extra city wage premium highly educated enjoy over less educated workers is increasing with city work experience. Interestingly, the city wage premium of less educated workers is increasing in firm tenure, while the highly educated gain more by shifting jobs between firms. The analysis is based on administrative registers covering all full time private sector workers in Norway, about 4.7 million worker-year observations.

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“…We also compute an "urban cluster" density measure in the spirit of Wheeler (2004), where the cluster density of an MSA is given by the population-weighted average density of the individual urban clusters in the MSA. The "MSA geological features" variable is constructed using the same US Geological Survey data as in Rosenthal and Strange (2008b): seismic hazard, landslide hazard, and sedimentary bedrock. For illustrative purposes, we take the logarithm of the sum of the three measures.…”

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confidence: 99%