The sources of the urban wage premium by worker skills: Spatial sorting or agglomeration economies?
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In this article, the authors estimate the respective importance of spatial sorting and agglomeration economies in explaining the urban wage premium for workers with different sets of skills, and provide further evidence of spatial density bringing about productivity advantages primarily in contexts when problem-solving and interaction with others are important.Citations
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The Empirics of Agglomeration Economies
TL;DR: In this article, an integrated framework is proposed to discuss the empirical literature on the local determinants of agglomeration effects. But the most important concerns are about endogeneity at the local and individual levels, the choice of a productivity measure between wages and total-factor productivity, and the roles of spatial scale, firms' characteristics, and functional forms.
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Industrial Diversification in Europe: The Differentiated Role of Relatedness
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of industry relatedness in explaining variations in industry diversification, measured as the entry of new industry specializations, across 173 European regions during the period 2004-2012, was investigated.
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Immigrant Diversity and Economic Performance in Cities
TL;DR: This paper reviewed a growing literature investigating how "immigrant" diversity relates to urban economic performance and argued that the low-hanging fruit in this field has now been picked and lays out a set of open issues that need to be taken up in future studies in order to fulfill the promise of this work.
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How Local are Spatial Density Externalities? Neighbourhood Effects in Agglomeration Economies
TL;DR: Andersson et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the geographic scale at which density externalities operate, using geocoded high-resolution data, focused on exogenously determined within-city squares (neighbourhoods) of 1'km2.
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Which types of relatedness matter in regional growth? Industry, occupation and education
Sofia Wixe,Martin Andersson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a conceptual discussion of relatedness, which suggests a focus on individuals as a complement to firms and industries, and test the empirical relevance of the main arguments by estimating the effects of related and unrelated variety in education and occupation among employees.
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Schooling, Experience, and Earnings
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the distribution of worker earnings across workers and over the working age as consequences of differential investments in human capital and developed the human capital earnings function, an econometric tool for assessing rates of return and other investment parameters.
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A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region
TL;DR: A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region as discussed by the authors was made to simulate urban growth in the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, 1970, 1970.
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Wages, Rents, and the Quality of Life
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of wages and rents in allocating workers to locations with various quantities of amenities is discussed, and it is shown that if the amenity is also productive, then the sign of the wage gradient is unclear while the rent gradient is positive.
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The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration
TL;DR: This paper found that computer capital substitutes for workers in performing cognitive and manual tasks that can be accomplished by following explicit rules, and complements workers in non-routine problem-solving and complex communications tasks.
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Productivity and the Density of Economic Activity
Antonio Ciccone,Robert E. Hall +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that more than half of the variance of output per worker across states can be explained by differences in the density of economic activity and that a doubling of employment density increases average labor productivity by around 6 percent.