Why do cities pay more? An empirical examination of some competing theories of the urban wage premium

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The interregional migration of human capital and its regional consequences: a review (2017, background): “Some studies show that college students move to urban areas following graduation to take advantage of an urban wage premium (Glaeser & Maré, 2001; Wheeler, 2006; Yankow, 2006), implying that the moves of this group could further augment the disparities between rural and urban regions.”
Concentration in US labor markets: Evidence from online vacancy data (2020, background): “This suggests a new explanation for the city-wage premium (Yankow, 2006; Baum-Snow and Pavan, 2012): cities, and especially large cities, tend to have less concentrated labor markets than rural areas.5 In Figure 2, we show the quartiles of HHI across the US, and reveal substantial heterogeneity in…”
Agglomeration and productivity: evidence from firm-level data (2011, background): “Studies at the level of individuals also show that workers are more productive in larger regions (Glaeser and Mare 2001; Wheeler 2006; Yankow 2006 ).”
The urban wage growth premium: sorting or learning? (2014, methodology): “Yankow (2006) adopts a different approach which allows him to separate the mobility effect from a growth effect, but that does not allow for sorting on unobservables.”