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Agglomeration economies growth wages J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs/J.J3.J31 - Wage Level and Structure • Wage Differentials J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers/J.J6.J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility • Immigrant Workers R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics/R.R2 - Household Analysis/R.R2.R23 - Regional Migration • Regional Labor Markets • Population • Neighborhood CharacteristicsSujets proches
Earnings Wage rates Wage-fund Departmental salaries Remuneration Pay Salaries Compensation Working class--WagesCiter ce document
Clémence Berson et al., « Time-Varying Agglomeration Economies and Aggregate Wage Growth », Archive ouverte de Sciences Po (SPIRE), ID : 10670/1.5o19ad
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We quantify the effects of city agglomeration economies on labour earnings in France over a forty-year period using individual wage panel data. We first delineate cities at every date to consider changes in their footprint over time. We then estimate a daily wage specification that includes time-varying city effects while controlling for observed and unobserved individual heterogeneity. We regress these city effects on agglomeration variables every year, and assess how changes in values and returns to agglomeration variables affect the evolution of daily wages. We find a negligible role for changes in values, but an important role for changes in returns. There is also significant heterogeneity across cities, even among large cities of similar sizes. We propose a theoretical model in which agglomeration economies affect both population and city area. A calibration exercise shows that changes in returns to agglomeration economies are not enough to generate variations in population and city area influencing significantly aggregate labour earnings. This result is consistent with the negligible role of changes in values found in our empirical investigation.