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Wage Premia in Employment Clusters: How Important is Worker Heterogeneity?

id:2155 时间:20131014 status:published 点击数:
杂志Journal of Labor Economics   
作者Shihe Fu, Stephen Ross
正文This paper tests whether the correlation between wages and the spatial concentration of employment can be explained by unobserved worker productivity differences. Residential location is used as a proxy for a worker’s unobserved productivity, and average workplace commute time is used to test whether location-based productivity differences are compensated away by longer commutes. Analyses using confidential data from the 2000 Decennial Census Long Form find that the agglomeration estimates are robust to comparisons within residential location and that the estimates do not persist after controlling for commuting costs suggesting that the productivity differences across locations are not due to productivity differences across individuals.
JEL-Codes:R13, R30, J24, J31
关键词:Agglomeration, Wages, Sorting, Locational Equilibrium, Human Capital Externalities
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