The Rural/Urban Wage Premium, Backwater- and Firm-Size Effects – A Microdata Cohort Analysis for Germany. - University of Regensburg Publication Server

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Möller, Joachim ; Lehmer, Florian

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Item type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Date:	July 2006
Institutions:	Business, Economics and Information Systems > Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre und Ökonometrie > Entpflichtete oder im Ruhestand befindliche Professoren > Lehrstuhl für Empirische Makroökonomie und Regionalökonomie (Prof. Dr. Joachim Möller) Business, Economics and Information Systems > Institut für Immobilienenwirtschaft / IRE\|BS > Alumni or Retired Professors > Lehrstuhl für Empirische Makroökonomie und Regionalökonomie (Prof. Dr. Joachim Möller)
Keywords:	Urban- rural migration; firm-size mobility; wage growth; urban wage premium; firm-size wage premium
Dewey Decimal Classification:	300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
Status:	Published
Refereed:	Yes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of Regensburg:	Yes
Item ID:	215

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At the interface of regional and labor economics, our paper deals with two central topics in the analysis of wage formation, the urban wage premium and the firm-size wage differential. Choosing a cohort of workers from a large panel micro data set we find a raw urban wage premium of 15 percent. Controlling for firm size lowers the premium by 1/3. Evidence on migrants implies that the effects of ...

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