Semantic Scholar Open Access 2019 92 sitasi

Cities, Lights, and Skills in Developing Economies

D. Davis Jonathan I. Dingel Antonio Miscio

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In developed economies, agglomeration is skill-biased: larger cities are skill-abundant and exhibit higher skilled wage premia. This paper characterizes the spatial distributions of skills in Brazil, China, and India. To facilitate comparisons with developed-economy findings, we construct metropolitan areas for each of these economies by aggregating finer geographic units on the basis of contiguous areas of light in nighttime satellite images. Our results validate this procedure. These lights-based metropolitan areas mirror commuting-based definitions in the United States and Brazil. In China and India, which lack commuting-based definitions, lights-based metropolitan populations follow a power law, while administrative units do not. Examining variation in relative quantities and prices of skill across these metropolitan areas, we conclude that agglomeration is also skill-biased in Brazil, China, and India.

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Economics Geography

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D. Davis

Jonathan I. Dingel

Antonio Miscio

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Davis, D., Dingel, J.I., Miscio, A. (2019). Cities, Lights, and Skills in Developing Economies. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2019.05.005

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Lihat di Sumber doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2019.05.005

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Tahun Terbit: 2019
Bahasa: en
Total Sitasi: 92×
Sumber Database: Semantic Scholar
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2019.05.005
Akses: Open Access ✓