City Air or City Markets:Productivity Gains in Urban Areas

Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number ofresearchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills incities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result,however, is that thicker urban labor markets allow for better matches, which are realizedslowly through a process of subsequent job searches...

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Year of publication:	2007-12-01
Authors:	Krupka, Douglas J.
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Arbeitsergebnis \| job result \| Agglomeration <Wirtschaft> \| agglomeration \| Prämienlohn \| rank incentives

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Extent:	1024 bytes 29 p. application/pdf
Series:	IZA Discussion Papers IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 3230 (2007)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc ; J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, and Changes ; R23 - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population ; Personnel administration. Human resources management. General ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; No country specification
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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