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Finding suitable employment in a city is more challenging for married than unmarried migrants. This paper provides empirical evidence that the denser and more diversified labor markets in large cities help alleviate the colocation problem of married couples. Using data from China, we show that...
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This paper develops a micro-founded city systems model with an endogenous number of cities to explore whether local governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to...
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In this paper we show that the double Pareto lognormal (DPLN) parameterization provides an excellent fit to the overall US city size distribution, regardless of whether "cities" are administratively defined Census places or economically defined area clusters. We then consider an economic model...
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We analyze the role of optimal income taxation across different local labor markets. Should labor in large cities be taxed differently than in small cities? We find that a planner who needs to raise revenue and is constrained by free mobility of labor across cities does not choose equal taxes...
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The salient rank-size rule known as Zipf's law is not only satisfied for Germany's national urban hierarchy, but also …
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In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkably well in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simple rank-size rule known as Zipf's law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is the "churning" of industries...
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In recent decades, information and communication technology (ICT) has been associated with far-reaching changes in the design of jobs. However, it still remains unclear whether these changes will lead to more centralization or more decentralization in firms. Previous literature on this debate...
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in a business group hierarchy affects workers' wages. To acknowledge that ownership linkages are not onedirectional, we …
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industry, we focus on monetary rewards (bonus payments and wage increases), level of hierarchy and weekly working hours as well … of working hours, and some extent of hierarchy levels and monetary rewards. We find less evidence for our hypotheses …
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variation within hierarchy levels, (2) promotion premiums only in part explain hierarchical wage differences and (3) external … recruitment is observable on nearly any hierarchy level. We explain these empirical puzzles by combining job-promotion tournaments … with higher-level bonus payments in a two-tier hierarchy. Moreover, we show that under certain conditions the firm …
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