Urban Wages and Labor Market Agglomeration

By William L. C. Wheaton, Mark J. Lewis. 2002

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Cities, matching and the productivity gains of agglomeration (2004, background): “Wheaton and Lewis [16]), it is not a satisfactory aggregation from our perspective, since this unit is too large and heterogeneous for our purposes.”
Smart Cafe Cities: Testing human capital externalities in the Boston metropolitan area (2007, methodology): “Wheaton and Lewis [49] were most likely the first to test Marshallian labor market externalities.”
Do Governments Tax Agglomeration Rents? (2013, background): “…and localization economies in determining worker productivity (Henderson (1986), Henderson (2003) and Combes, Duranton, Gobillon, and Roux (2007)), wages (Wheaton and Lewis (2002)) and economic growth (Glaeser, Kallal, Scheinkman, and Shleifer (1992), Henderson, Kuncoro, and Turner (1995)).”
The attenuation of human capital spillovers (2008, background): “See also Diamond and Simon (1990) and Wheaton and Lewis (2002), who find that wages are higher in more specialized locations.”
Evidence on the nature and sources of agglomeration economies (2004, methodology): “Recent examples of this approach include Glaeser and Maré (2001) and Wheaton and Lewis (2002).”
Spatial wage disparities: Sorting matters! (2008, background): “Rauch (1993) and Wheaton and Lewis (2002) are two exceptions.”