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Title: Urban Wages and Labor Market Agglomeration

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2002

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Abstract: Using the 5% public use micro sample of the 1990 U.S. census, we find that observationally equivalent workers in the manufacturing sector earn higher wages when they are in urban labor markets that have a larger share of national or metropolitan employment in their same occupation and industry groups. Quantitatively, the effect is large, with an elasticity (measured at the means) of between 1.2 and 3.6 for these effects. We interpret the willingness of firms to pay more for equivalent workers in dense markets as evidence of an agglomeration economy in urban labor.

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Authors: Wheaton, WC; Lewis, MJ

Periodical (Full): Journal of Urban Economics

Issue: 3

Volume: 51

Pages: 542-562

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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