Is the Growing Skill Premium a Purely Metropolitan Issue?

This paper documents that virtually all of the growth in the skilled wage premium over the 1980’s in the United States was confined to metropolitan areas. Explanations for the growth in the skilled wage premium will therefore need to take location into account.

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Year of publication:	2008-01-05
Authors:	Chung, Chul ; Clark, Jeremy ; Kim, Bonggeun
Institutions:	Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business and Economics
Subject:	Skilled wage premium \| Metropolitan areas

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Papers in Economics.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	14 pages
Classification:	J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc ; R23 - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population ; F16 - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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