What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution

This paper aims at disentangling the role played by different explanations on the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from lower to higher density areas in Italy, using quantile regressions and individual data. The results show that unskilled work...

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Autores: Matano, Alessia, Naticchioni, Paolo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/107252
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/107252
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Palabra clave:Geografia de la població
Competències professionals
Salaris
Distribució (Teoria econòmica)
Capital social (Sociologia)
Population geography
Vocational qualifications
Wages
Distribution (Economic theory)
Social capital (Sociology)
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spelling What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage DistributionMatano, AlessiaNaticchioni, PaoloGeografia de la poblacióCompetències professionalsSalarisDistribució (Teoria econòmica)Capital social (Sociologia)Population geographyVocational qualificationsWagesDistribution (Economic theory)Social capital (Sociology)This paper aims at disentangling the role played by different explanations on the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from lower to higher density areas in Italy, using quantile regressions and individual data. The results show that unskilled workers benefit more from a wage premium accruing over time, while skilled workers enjoy a wage premium when they migrate as well as a wage increase over time. Further, we find that for unskilled workers the wage growth over time is mainly due to human capital accumulation in line with the 'learning' hypothesis, while for skilled workers the wage growth is mainly explained by the 'coordination' hypothesis, i.e., cities enhance the probability of better matches between workers and firms.Wiley2016info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/107252Articles publicats en revistes (Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésVersió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12235Journal of Regional Science, 2016, vol. 56, num. 2, p. 191-206https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12235(c) Wiley, 2016info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/1072522026-05-27T06:46:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution
title What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution
spellingShingle What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution
Matano, Alessia
Geografia de la població
Competències professionals
Salaris
Distribució (Teoria econòmica)
Capital social (Sociologia)
Population geography
Vocational qualifications
Wages
Distribution (Economic theory)
Social capital (Sociology)
title_short What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution
title_full What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution
title_fullStr What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution
title_full_unstemmed What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution
title_sort What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Matano, Alessia
Naticchioni, Paolo
author Matano, Alessia
author_facet Matano, Alessia
Naticchioni, Paolo
author_role author
author2 Naticchioni, Paolo
author2_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Geografia de la població
Competències professionals
Salaris
Distribució (Teoria econòmica)
Capital social (Sociologia)
Population geography
Vocational qualifications
Wages
Distribution (Economic theory)
Social capital (Sociology)
topic Geografia de la població
Competències professionals
Salaris
Distribució (Teoria econòmica)
Capital social (Sociologia)
Population geography
Vocational qualifications
Wages
Distribution (Economic theory)
Social capital (Sociology)
description This paper aims at disentangling the role played by different explanations on the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from lower to higher density areas in Italy, using quantile regressions and individual data. The results show that unskilled workers benefit more from a wage premium accruing over time, while skilled workers enjoy a wage premium when they migrate as well as a wage increase over time. Further, we find that for unskilled workers the wage growth over time is mainly due to human capital accumulation in line with the 'learning' hypothesis, while for skilled workers the wage growth is mainly explained by the 'coordination' hypothesis, i.e., cities enhance the probability of better matches between workers and firms.
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