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DP14434 Cities, Lights, and Skills in Developing Economies
Jonathan Dingel; Antonio Miscio; Donald R Davis
发表日期2020-02-22
出版年2020
语种英语
摘要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.
主题International Trade and Regional Economics
关键词Cities Metropolitan areas Satellite images Skill-biased agglomeration Zipf's law
URLhttps://cepr.org/publications/dp14434
来源智库Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型智库出版物
条目标识符http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543331
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Jonathan Dingel,Antonio Miscio,Donald R Davis. DP14434 Cities, Lights, and Skills in Developing Economies. 2020.
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