The urban wage growth premium: Sorting or learning?
The urban wage growth premium: Sorting or learning?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2014.06.006
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发表时间：
2014-09-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Overman, Henry G.
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作者：
D'Costa, Sabine;Overman, Henry G.
本文关注的是城市工资溢价，并讨论了该领域尚未达成共识的两个核心问题：第一，高能力人才进入城市地区在多大程度上解释了城市工资溢价；第二，工人是立即获得这种工资溢价，还是通过加班更快的工资增长。使用来自英国的大量工人数据，我们首先证明了城市工资水平溢价的存在，这种溢价随着城市规模的增加而增加。接下来，我们提供了城市规模溢价对工资增长的影响的证据，但表明这种效应纯粹是由工人搬到更大地点的第一年工资增长所驱动的。控制基于不可观测值的排序，我们没有发现城市工资增长溢价的证据。然而，城市经验确实对工资增长有一定影响。具体来说，我们表明，曾经在城市工作过的工人比从未在城市工作过的工人的工资增长更快。 (C) 2014 年作者。由 Elsevier B.V 出版。这是一篇基于 CC BY 许可证 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) 的开放获取文章。
This paper is concerned with the urban wage premium and addresses two central issues about which the field has not yet reached a consensus: first, the extent to which sorting of high ability individuals into urban areas explains the urban wage premium and second, whether workers receive this wage premium immediately, or through faster wage growth overtime. Using a large panel of worker-level data from Britain, we first demonstrate the existence of an urban premium for wage levels, which increases in city size. We next provide evidence of a city size premium on wage growth, but show that this effect is driven purely by the increase in wage that occurs in the first year that a worker moves to a larger location. Controlling for sorting on the basis of unobservables we find no evidence of an urban wage growth premium. Experience in cities does have some impact on wage growth, however. Specifically, we show that workers who have at some point worked in a city experience faster wage growth than those who have never worked in a city. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).