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Title: Location Choice at Labor Force Entry and New Estimates of Selection, Growth, and Level Effects from U.S. Census Data

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: Using wages and migration histories of a large sample of college graduates in the 2000 U.S. Census data, this paper provides a new set of estimates that characterize the relationship between earnings profiles and cities for labor force entry. Results indicate that the workers who spend their early years in larger cities receive higher wages and experience more rapid wage growth, and this particular effect of city size on wage growth increases with individual ability. A new decomposition of the city-size wage premium suggests that the selection effect accounts for 12% of the city-size wage gap. The remainder of the percentage is attributed to wage level and wage growth effects at 60% and 28%, respectively.

Url: http://homepage.fudan.edu.cn/wangzhi2013brownecon/files/2014/02/draft-Wang-10-28-2014.pdf

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Authors: Wang, Zhi

Publisher: Fudan University

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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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