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Title: Gender wage differentials and the spatial concentration of high-technology industries

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Publication Year: 2010

ISBN: 978-3-642-03324-7

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Abstract: Several previous empirical studies show that workers are more productive and make higher wages in cities with a large concentration of human capital. These studies attribute the higher productivity of workers in cities rich in human capital to knowledge externalities that arise when the presence of educated workers makes other workers more productive. All the work today has considered the effect of human-capital externalities on male wages only or a sample of both genders combined. In the present study, we examine the effect of human-capital externalities separately for women and men in the United States on the basis of data from the 2000 Census of Population.

Url: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-03326-1_14

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Authors: Echeverri-Carroll, Elsie; Ayala, Sofia

Editors: Paez et al,

Pages: 287-311

Volume Title: In Progress in Spatial Analysis

Publisher: Springer

Publisher Location: Berlin

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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