Income differences across US cities are well documented, but little is known about the level of standard of living in each city--defined as the amount of market-based consumption that residents are able to afford. In this paper we provide estimates of the standard of living by commuting zone for...

We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of manufacturing employment in the year of its country's...

We examine changes in the spatial distribution of good jobs across US commuting zones over 1980-2000 and 2000-2021. We define good jobs as those in industries in which full-time workers attain high wages, accounting for individual and regional characteristics. The share of good jobs in...

The New Geography of Jobs ENRICO MORETTI HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT Boston New York 2012 CONTENTS Introduction 1 1. American Rust 19 2. Smart Labor: Microchips, Movies, and Multipliers 45 3. T he Great Divergence 73 4. Forces of...