کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
971571 932363 2011 14 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Urban agglomeration, wages and selection: Evidence from samples of siblings
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Urban agglomeration, wages and selection: Evidence from samples of siblings
چکیده انگلیسی

The large and significant relationship between city population and wages has been well-established in the agglomeration literature, and the influence of selection effects on this wage premium is important. This paper contributes new evidence to the understanding of this premium by using two different data sets of siblings in order to estimate the agglomeration premium while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity with a family-specific fixed effect. The inclusion of a familial fixed effect into the regression framework makes the city size wage premium insignificant, and there is a large return to a variable representing the correlation between familial ability and residence in an urban area in all of the data sets used in the analysis. The results are discussed in the context of the existing literature, and they demonstrate the importance of family background and selection effects for interpreting the agglomeration premium, which is small in the fixed effects regression.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Labour Economics - Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 79–92
نویسندگان
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