Replication data for: Why Has Urban Inequality Increased?

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Nathaniel Baum-Snow; Matthew Freedman; Ronni Pavan

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Citation:

Baum-Snow, Nathaniel, Freedman, Matthew, and Pavan, Ronni. Replication data for: Why Has Urban Inequality Increased?: BFP_Data. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113708V1-22907

To view the citation for the overall project, see http://doi.org/10.3886/E113708V1.

Project Description

Summary: This paper examines mechanisms driving the more rapid increases in wage inequality in larger cities between 1980 and 2007. Production function estimates indicate strong evidence of capital-skill complementarity and increases in the skill bias of agglomeration economies in the context of rapid skill-biased technical change. Immigration shocks are the source of identifying variation across cities in changes to the relative supply of skilled versus unskilled labor. Estimates indicate that changes in the factor biases of agglomeration economies rationalize at least 80 percent of the more rapid increases in wage inequality in larger cities.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
      O33 Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
      R23 Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics

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