Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/171458 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 17-055
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the effect of the size of the local labor market on skill mismatch. Using survey data for Germany, I find that workers in large cities are both less likely to be overqualified for their job and to work in a different field than the one they are trained for. Different empirical strategies are employed to account for the potential sorting of talented workers into more urbanized areas. Results on individuals never moving from the place of childhood and fixed-effects estimates obtaining identification through regional migrants suggest that sorting does not fully explain the existing differences in qualification mismatch across areas. This provides evidence of the existence of agglomeration economies through better matches. However, lower qualification mismatch in larger cities is found to explain only a small part of the urban wage premium.
Subjects: 
agglomeration
labor matching
qualification mismatch
urban wage
JEL: 
I21
J24
J31
R23
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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