We use data from British Cities to examine the extent of the urban wage growth premium. We demonstrate the existence of a premium for wage levels, but not for wage growth. City living does have some impact on wage growth, however. Specifically, we show that workers who have at some point lived...

The large research literature in urban labour market analysis is reviewed, with the emphasis ranging from attempts to model aggregate simultaneous interactions between residential and workplace location to more modern econometric work researching individual labour market behaviour. The job...