Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/90088 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7811
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper aims at disentangling the role played by different explanations on the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from lower to higher density areas in Italy, using quantile regressions and individual data. The results show that unskilled workers benefit more from a wage premium accruing over time, while skilled workers enjoy a wage premium when they migrate as well as a wage increase over time. Further, we find that for unskilled workers the wage growth over time is mainly due to human capital accumulation, consistently with the learning hypothesis, while for skilled workers it is the coordination hypothesis that matters.
Subjects: 
urban wage premium
human capital
spatial sorting
wage distribution
quantile fixed effects
JEL: 
J31
J61
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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