Cities and Skills

By Edward L. Glaeser, David C. Maré. Journal of Labor Economics, 2001

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Do New Economic Geography agglomeration shadows underlie current population dynamics across the urban hierarchy (2009, background): “Most related research is limited to larger urban centers and metropolitan areas (MAs) (Brülhart and Koenig 2006; Eaton and Eckstein 1997; Glaeser and Maré 2001; Head and Mayer 2004, 2006; Knaap 2006; Lucas and Rossi-Hansberg 2002) with surprisingly little work examining related spatial interactions…”
Local labor force education, new business characteristics, and firm performance (2010, background): “Research tends to find that control for worker fixed effects (Combes et al., 2008; Glaeser and Mare, 2001) substantially reduces, but does not eliminate, the urban wage premium.”
From periphery to core: measuring agglomeration effects using high-speed rail (2018, background): “7 Examples include Ciccone (2002), Ciccone and Hall (1996), Dekle & Eaton (1999), Glaeser and Mare (2001), Henderson, Kuncoro and Turner (1995), Moretti (2004), Rauch (1993), and Sveikauskas (1975).”
Urban Wages and Labor Market Agglomeration (2002, neutral): “an MSA.(3) Residents of Alaska and Hawaii are also excluded.”
Scale Effects in Markets with Search (2006, result): “F0(w∗) 1 − F(w∗) (y(w ∗) − w∗) ( 11 ) is the slope of the truncated mean function, denoted by y0(w∗).”
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.”
Spatial wage disparities: Sorting matters! (2008, background): “A third hypothesis (Glaeser and Maré, 2001; Wheeler, 2006) is that workers may learn more in larger cities.”
Why are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions? (2012, background): “Individuals might for instance temporarily move to the largest metropolitan areas, even if this does not match their cultural preferences, in order to benefit from better learning opportunities and career prospects that are typically much better there (see Glaeser and Maré 2001, Peri 2002).”
Skills in the city (2009, background): “This is consistent with Glaeser and Mare (2001), who find that including AFQT makes little difference in the estimated magnitude of the urban wage premium but contrasts to findings in Neal and Johnson (1996) where the white-black wage gap can be explained by differences in AFQT scores.”
Urban Vibrancy and Corporate Growth (2015, positive): “While it is hard to gauge the magnitude of such an effect, evidence such as Glaeser and Mare (2001) suggest that employment in dense urban areas where such ideas and skills are likely to spread impart long-lived human capital advantages.”
Housing, urban growth and inequalities: The limits to deregulation and upzoning in reducing economic and spatial inequality (2019, background): “The young are not yet at the top of the skill– wage hierarchy, but are willing to put up with difficult conditions in the short run to build up their experience on the job escalator (De la Roca and Puga, 2017; Glaeser and Maré, 2001; Jayet, 1983).”
When Do Renters Behave Like Homeowners? High Rent, Price Anxiety, and NIMBYism (2018, background): “…2015).1 Beyond residents paying burdensome rents, those priced out of these cities are denied opportunity: higher rates of skill acquisition (Glaeser and Maré 2001;Rosenthal and Strange 2008), longer life expectancies (Chetty, Stepner, and Abraham 2016; Singh and Siahpush 2014), and…”
Cities, Workers, and Wages: A Structural Analysis of the Urban Wage Premium (2007, methodology): “" As Glaeser and Mare (2001) argue, understanding why workers earn more in cities goes to the heart of the central question in urban economics: why do cities exist?”