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Title: Small Teams in Big Cities: Inequality, City Size, and the Organization of Production

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: This paper studies the effect of spatial sorting on inequality through two channels: spatial differences in technology and the endogenous organization of production. First, I document a new fact on the spatial differences in the organization of production. The number of workers per manager is decreasing in city size, overall and within industries. I develop and quantify a model of a system of cities where workers with different skills organize in production teams. The model yields continuous wage distributions in cities of different sizes that resemble the data.

Url: https://www.cemfi.es/ftp/pdf/papers/Seminar/Santamaria_JMP.pdf

Url: https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi?db_name=SAEe2017&paper_id=620

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Authors: Santamaria, Clara

Publisher: CEMFI and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

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Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization

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