Möller, Joachim and Lehmer, Florian (2006) The Rural/Urban Wage Premium, Backwater- and Firm-Size Effects – A Microdata Cohort Analysis for Germany. Working Paper.
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Abstract
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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| Item type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Date: | July 2006 |
| Institutions: | Business, Economics and Information Systems > Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre und Ökonometrie > Lehrstuhl für Empirische Makroökonomie und Regionalökonomie (Prof. Dr. Joachim Möller) Business, Economics and Information Systems > Institut für Immobilienenwirtschaft / IRE|BS > 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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