Search, Sorting, and Urban Agglomeration

By Christopher H. Wheeler. Journal of Labor Economics, 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Entrepreneurship and Market Size - The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy (2010, unknown): “…1983), the expected quality of employer – employee match is best (Helsley and Strange (1990), Kim, 1990), search costs per worker are lowest (Wheeler, 2001), and learning, the diffusion of technological spillovers and the acquisition of entrepreneurial capabilities are fastest (see Guiso…”
Cities and the Growth of Wages Among Young Workers: Evidence from the NLSY (2005, background): “Wheeler (2001) ).2 Because all four explanations are consistent with the presence of an urban”
Agglomeration and Innovation (2014, unknown): “Zucker et al. (1998) provide one of the earliest expressions of this phenomenon in the extreme concentration of early biotechnology activity around the locations of star scientists in the nascent field.”
FROM CONCEPTION TO BIRTH: OPPORTUNITY PERCEPTION AND RESOURCE MOBILIZATION IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP (2003, background): “First, the concentration of activities in one region can lead to an extended division of labor, resulting in employees with more highly specialized skills (Rotemberg & Saloner, 1990; Wheeler, 2001 ) and suppliers with products and services better suited to the needs of the firms within the industry”
The thick market effect on local unemployment rate fluctuations (2006, unknown): “Wheeler (2001) examines local labor markets where urban agglomeration facilitates the search and sorting process.”
The Identification of Agglomeration Economies (2011, background): “Returning to the specification made of (11) and (12), a key issue is that the wage growth of workers appears to be stronger in large cities (e.g., Wheeler, 2001).”
Personnel Economics: Hiring and Incentives (2010, background): “Wheeler (2001) develops a model where capital and worker skill are complements.”
The attenuation of human capital spillovers (2008, background): “Considering a range of occupations, Wheeler (2001) finds that more educated workers enjoy a larger premium, while Adamson et al. (2004) find the opposite.3 None of these papers consider attenuation.”
Skills in the city (2009, background): “(1980), Wolff (2003), and Ingram and Neumann (2006).”