INEQUALITY AND CITY SIZE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Baum-Snow, Nathaniel; Pavan, Ronni
• 署名单位: Brown University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of London
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00328
• 发表日期: 2013-12
• 页码: 1535-1548
• 关键词: wage inequality; relative wages; DECOMPOSITION; returns; demand; skills; 1980S

摘要

A strong positive monotonic relationship between wage inequality and city size developed between 1979 and 2007 in the United States. After accounting for differences in skill composition across cities of different sizes, we find that at least 23% of the nationwide increase in the variance of log hourly wages is explained by the more rapid growth in wage inequality in larger locations than in smaller locations. This influence occurred throughout the wage distribution, was most prevalent during the 1990s, and was mostly driven by more rapid growth in within-skill-group inequality in larger cities.