The Sources of Urban Development: Wages, Housing, and Amenity Gaps Across American Cities

T. Kemeny, M. Storper
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This paper asks whether worker utility levels—composed of wages, rents, and amenities—are being equalized among American cities. Using microdata on U.S. urban workers in 1980 and 2000, little evidence of equalization is found. Comparable workers earn higher real wages in large cities, where amenities are also concentrated. Moreover, population growth between 1980 and 2000 has not been significantly different in low- and high-utility cities, suggesting that other forces are at work shaping the sorting processes that match workers and firms. We outline an alternative view of the drivers of change in the American urban system, and urban development more generally, by applying theory from economic geography.
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城市发展的来源:美国城市的工资、住房和舒适设施差距
这篇论文提出了一个问题:工人的效用水平——包括工资、租金和便利设施——是否在美国城市中被平等化了?使用1980年和2000年美国城市工人的微观数据,几乎没有发现平等的证据。同等水平的工人在便利设施也集中的大城市挣得更高的实际工资。此外,1980年至2000年间,低效用城市和高效用城市的人口增长并没有显著差异,这表明,其他力量正在塑造匹配工人和公司的分类过程。通过应用经济地理学的理论,我们概述了美国城市系统和更广泛的城市发展变化驱动因素的另一种观点。
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