Human Capital Externalities and the Urban Wage Premium: Two Literatures and their Interrelations

Urban Studies - Tập 47 Số 4 - Trang 749-767 - 2010
Daniel F. Heuermann1, Benedikt Halfdanarson2, Jens Suedekum3
1Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Community, the University of Trier, 54286 Trier, Germany,
2Statistics Iceland, National Accounts, Borgartun 21b, Reykjavik, 105, Iceland,
3Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstrasse 65, Duisburg, 47057, Germany,

Tóm tắt

In this paper, a survey is presented of the recent developments in two empirical literatures at the crossroads of labour and urban economics: studies about localised human capital externalities (HCE) and about the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the methods and main results of each of these two literatures separately, several interrelations between them are highlighted. In particular, the discussion focuses on whether HCE can be interpreted as one fundamental cause of the UWP and whether one literature can learn conceptually from the other.

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