Matching in Cities

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Moretti, Enrico; Suedekum, Jens
• 署名单位: Otto Friedrich University Bamberg; University of Konstanz; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1093/jeea/jvac004
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 1478-1521
• 关键词: high wage workers; PRODUCTIVITY; scale; agglomeration; determinants; regions; MARKETS; search; models; GROWTH

摘要

Using administrative German data, we show that large cities allow for a more efficient matching between workers and firms and this has important consequences for geographical inequality. Specifically, the match between high-quality workers and high-quality plants is significantly tighter in large cities relative to small cities. Wages in large cities are higher not only because of the higher worker quality but also because of a stronger assortative matching. Strong assortative matching in large cities magnifies wage differences caused by worker sorting, and is a key factor in explaining the growth of geographical wage disparities over the last three decades.