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Inclusive urban futures : from inequality to opportunity

2026

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South Africa’s Fragmented Cities : The Unequal Burden of Labor Market Frictions

Baez, Javier E.; Kshirsagar, Varun - 2026

Using high-resolution administrative, census, and satellite data, this paper shows that South African cities are characterized by spatial mismatches between where people live and where jobs are located, relative to 20 global peers. Areas within 5 kilometers of commercial centers have 9,300 fewer...

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Does labour market area affect local unemployment rates? : Evidence from mono-centric and polycentric Italies, 2006-2022

Muolo, Alessandro; Punzo, Gennaro; Bruno, Emma; … - 2026

We reconnect the economic and geographical dimensions of labour market dynamics by examining whether settlement models affect local labour markets' performances in Italy. Results of spatial Durbin regressions outline a quadratic relationship between unemployment and market area, with lower rates...

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Structural change in African countries : focus on urban wages

Fukunishi, Takahiro - 2026

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Birthplace urbanicity and lifetime labor-market outcomes : evidence from forced migration due to World War II

Möller, Joachim - 2026

During and after World War II, West Germany absorbed around eight million refugees and displaced persons. We use the resulting forced migration as a natural experiment to examine whether birthplace characteristics retained long-run relevance after the spatial link between birthplace and...

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Cities that Work : Realizing the Jobs Potential of MENA’s Cities

Le Courtois, Alexandra; Murray, Sally; Roberts, Mark - 2026

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Informing the job search : a field experiment in an urban labor market

Afridi, Farzana; Sahoo, Soubhagya; Sangwan, Nikita - 2026

We examine the impact of labor market information on beliefs, job search and employment outcomes of job seekers in urban India. Through a cluster-randomized intervention in Delhi, over 3000 men and women are randomized into a treatment group in which they are informed and assisted in accessing a...

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Steering and spatial mismatch

Wang, Yao; Wang, Yixuan; Zhu, Tianyun - 2026

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Blossoming towns

Bishop, Menna; Moneke, Niclas; Zipfel, Céline - 2026

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"Improving, not leaving" : exploring exit and voice in labour in a UBI pilot in slums in urban India

Mathur, Vibhor; Howard, Neil - 2026

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A systematic review of urban informality research from an urbanization crisis context perspective

Chen, Xuan; Ding, Zhuhui; Zhang, Chenyu; Yang, Juntao; … - 2026

Coping with the multifaceted crises of contemporary urbanization necessitates a more com-prehensive understanding of the diverse patterns of urbanization. Among these, urban informality, as an archetypal model of urbanization, has emerged as an important way to foster sustainable development on...

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Spatial distribution of income in cities : polycentric structure of employment, amenities and spatial effects

Madariaga, Rafa; Lagonigro, Raymond; Oró-Aran, Ferran; … - 2026

This study investigates from a theoretical point of view the spatial distribution of households by income within metropolitan areas, focusing on three key determinants: the polycentric structure of employment, the spatial distribution and accessibility of public amenities, and the presence of...

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Hidden infrastructure of urban resilience : labor, precarity, and economic adaptation in India

Basu, Ritwika - 2026

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Access to jobs and individual labor market outcomes

Mense, Andreas; Dauth, Wolfgang; Wrede, Matthias - 2026

We investigate the employment effects of job access within cities. To overcome the endogeneity of residential location choices, we exploit the quasi-random allocation of applicants across affordable housing units in five German cities and propose a novel IV strategy. Our job access measure...

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From exclusion to integration : how informal workers can improve urban waste management

Roll, Michael; Abu Qdais, Hani Ahmad; Kornprobst, Tim Lukas - 2025

Solid waste management is one of the most pressing urban governance issues in low- and middle-income countries. Because waste volumes are increasing, the associated fiscal, environmental and health costs will also rise. The idea of working with informal waste workers to address this problem is...

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Will you follow your job to the suburbs? : commuting, locational amenities and wages in a large metro area

Verdugo, Gregory; Kandoussi, Malak - 2025

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Will you follow your job to the suburbs? : commuting, locational amenities and wages in a large metro area

Verdugo, Gregory; Kandoussi, Malak - 2025

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Will you follow your job to the suburbs? : commuting, locational amenities and wages in a large metro area

Verdugo, Gregory; Kandoussi, Malak - 2025

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Skills, migration, and urban amenities over the life cycle

Albouy, David; Faberman, R. Jason - 2025

We examine sorting behavior across metropolitan areas by skill over individuals' life cycles. We show that high-skill workers disproportionately sort into high-amenity areas, but do so relatively early in life. Workers of all skill levels tend to move towards lower-amenity areas during their...

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Skills, migration, and urban amenities over the life cycle

Albouy, David; Faberman, R. Jason - 2025

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Cities and the rise of working women

Berger, Thor; Karadja, Mounir; Prawitz, Erik - 2025

We document that large cities were instrumental in shaping women's work and family outcomes in the early 20th century. We focus on migrants to Stockholm, Sweden's largest city, using representative, linked census data. Female migrants to Stockholm saw persistent changes in work and family...

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Cities and the rise of working women

Berger, Thor; Karadja, Mounir; Prawitz, Erik - 2024

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How Do Migrants Fare in Africa's Urban Labor Markets?

Christiaensen, Luc; Keenan, Michael - 2025

Africa's urban population is on the rise, and it is often feared that migrants are a direct source of urban underdevelopment under the premise that they are poorly integrated into urban labor markets. This study examines the validity of this premise using data from six African countries. It...

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Evaluating spatial coupling between employment, population density, and metro stations in Shenzhen : a network accessibility perspective

Lai, Yani; Chen, Chunmei; Xu, Xiaoxiao - 2025

Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is increasingly recognized as an effective urban planning strategy, aiming for the harmonious development of urban spatial structures and rail transit systems, thus fostering sustainability. This study addresses the limitations of existing research in...

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Who works longer hours in smart cities?

Cai, Zhengyu - 2025

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Who works longer hours in smart cities?

Cai, Zhengyu - 2025

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Intersecting constraints : exploring labour market barriers for urban women in Sub-Saharan Africa

Stöcker, Alexander - 2025

This study examines the determinants of female labour force participation (FLFP) and female wage employment (FWE) of urban women in four SSA countries: Benin, Senegal, Uganda and Zambia. Using extensive micro-level data and a unified empirical framework, we investigate the multitude of...

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City size, employer concentration, and wage income inequality

Halvarsson, Daniel; Korpi, Martin - 2025

This study investigates the relationship between the urban wage premium and employer concentration using Swedish full population employer-employee data. Departing from an AKM modeling framework to distinguish worker from firm specific heterogeneity - a measure of rent-sharing - we then measure...

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Better or worse job accessibility? : understanding changes in spatial mismatch : evidence from Medellín, Colombia

Bernal, David; García, Gustavo; Pérez Pérez, Jorge - 2025

We propose a methodology to calculate the mismatch between places of work and places of residence that incorporates monetary and opportunity transportation costs while correcting for possible overestimation of job accessibility. This methodology enables the analysis of spatiotemporal changes in...

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A better delineation of U.S. metropolitan areas

Rappaport, Jordan; Humann, McKenzie - 2025

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A better delineation of U.S. metropolitan areas

Rappaport, Jordan; Humann, McKenzie - 2025 - updated May 2025

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Creative destruction or simple reshuffling? : turnover among businesses and jobs in South Africa

Visagie, Justin; Turok, Ivan; Nell, Andrew - 2025

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The economic urban divide : a detailed study of income inequality and segregation in Dutch urban areas (2011-2022)

San Millán, Javier; Cottineau-Mugadza, Clémentine; … - 2025

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The urban geographies of occupational segregation

Dellacasa, Manuel Garcia - 2025

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Urbanization without structural transformation? : a case study of the Nairobi metropolitan area

Magero, Joshua - 2025

Using data from Kenya's 2016 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises survey, the 2017 Census of Establishments, key informant interviews, and focus group discussions, this paper examines the patterns of structural transformation as well as its drivers and barriers in Nairobi. The findings show that...

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Tourism and growth in the local labor

Conti, Laura; Francesconi, Marco; Papini, Giulio; … - 2025

This paper documents how the local labor market (LLM) responds to a change in touristic attractiveness. Leveraging largely underutilized data from several sources, we exploit a unique classification of Italian localities based on their main touristic assets and aggregate trends in foreign...

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Tourism and growth in the local labor

Conti, Laura; Francesconi, Marco; Papini, Giulio; … - 2025 - Original version: Mai 2025, this version: November 2025

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Tourism and growth in the local labor market

Conti, Laura; Francesconi, Marco; Papini, Giulio; … - 2025

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Tourism and growth in the local labor market

Conti, Laura; Francesconi, Marco; Papini, Giulio; … - 2025

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Immigrant special visas and local employment : evidence from South African

Madzudzo, Valentine; Fintel, Dieter von; Nchake, Mamello - 2025

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Reassessing the spatial mismatch hypothesis

Card, David E.; Rothstein, Jesse; Yi, Moises - 2024

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Re-assessing the spatial mismatch hypothesis

Card, David E.; Rothstein, Jesse; Yi, Moises - 2025

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Re-assessing the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis

Card, David E.; Rothstein, Jesse; Yi, Moises - 2024

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A cities guide to reskilling the local workforce : introduction to launching a local or regional skills partnership

2025

The Intelligent Cities Challenge (ICC) is a European Commission initiative that supports cities in using cutting-edge technologies to lead the intelligent, green and socially responsible recovery. ICC cities and their local ecosystems will be engines for the recovery of their local economies,...

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Long-term effects of weather-induced migration on urban labor and housing markets

Busso, Matias; Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2025

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Long-term effects of weather-induced migration on urban labor and housing markets

Busso, Matias; Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2023

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Austrian urban real wages : Vienna, Salzburg and Rattenberg, c. 1440–1850

Adelsberger, Michael; Knapp, Elias; Stöger, Georg; … - 2025

Despite being studied for decades, the debate on pre-modern standards of living and real wages is constantly being reevaluated and expanded. This article contributes to the debate by using new data and providing a novel perspective on existing data for the Austrian cities of Vienna, Salzburg and...

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A study of job polarization in Sweden from an urban-rural perspective

Nordin, Martin; Hammarlund, Cecilia; Bergh, Andreas - 2025

This study is an explorative examination of changes in employment, revenue, and firm structure for low, mid, and high-skill firms in urban and rural areas in Sweden from 2007 to 2019, using skill groups based on education levels. For employment in Sweden in general, we find evidence of job...

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Polarised upgrading : the changing occupational structure of large cities in Germany and the UK, 1991-2021

Oesch, Daniel; Morris, Katy; Westenberger, Gina-Julia - 2025

An influential thesis predicted in the 1990s that large cities would become polarised as both high-wage professional and low-wage service jobs expanded at the expense of middle-wage workers. We revisit this thesis by analysing change in the occupational class structure of the ten largest cities...

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Falling into poverty or escaping from it? : the effect of the minimum wage in urban China

Démurger, Sylvie; Lin, Carl; Schmillen, Achim; Wang, Dewen - 2025

Minimum wages are found to have an inconclusive impact on poverty. Using China's individual-level panel dataset combined with county-level minimum wages, our paper shows that minimum wages have a moderate yet sustained effect on poverty reduction. The results show a two-sided effect: higher...

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The role of urban care sector in women’s employment and gender segregation in Colombian regions

Herrera Idárraga, Paula; Hernández, Helena María; … - 2025

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Ascending from the bottom rung : the labor market assimilation of rural-urban migrants in Sweden, 1880-1910

Andersson, Jonatan - 2025

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The geography of opportunity : Job accessibility and income in 10 Functional Urban Areas in the United States

Cho, Jaebeum - 2025

Regional economic divides are deepening across OECD countries, both within and between regions. As policy makers turn to place-based strategies to address spatial inequalities, understanding how access to employment relates to income is increasingly important. This paper examines the association...

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Demographic dimensions of wage disparities : a stochastic frontier approach to labor market in São Paulo City (Brazil)

Puehler, Leonardo; Danelon, André Felipe - 2025

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Unravelling the spatial dynamics of unemployment rates in district municipalities in South Africa : a disaggregated analysis for informed policymaking

Shiferaw, Yegnanew A - 2025

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Subsistence wage employment : labour market dynamics in urban Ghana

Deffebach, Peter - 2025

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Short term employment transitions in urban india : role of minimum wages

Sharma, Mohit; Viswanathan, Brinda - 2025

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Exploring the relationship between residential location and long-term settlement intentions : a study of migrant workers in urban China

Ding, Weiwu; Liu, Chu; Yuting, Wu; Li, Peilin; Wu, Yufeng; … - 2025

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Technology-driven green governance in low-carbon cities : policy innovation and employment effects

Wu, Yan; Li, Jinye; Deng, Xinfang - 2025

As the main objective of a low-carbon transition policy is to achieve green and sustainable development and since employment is related to people's livelihoods, will the low-carbon transition affect employment? Based on data from 2000-2022 for prefecture-level cities and above, we use in this...

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Does it take extra skills to work in a large city?

Rouwendal, Harm Jan; Koster, Sierdjan - 2025

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Urban pull : the roles of amenities and employment

Hausman, Naomi; Samuels, Peleg; Cohen, Maxime C.; … - 2025

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