Sorting and Local Wage and Skill Distributions in France

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon and Sébastien Roux (roux@ensae.fr)

No 6501, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper provides descriptive evidence about the distribution of wages and skills in denser and less dense employment areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser areas are more skilled. There is also strong over-representation of workers with particularly high and low skills in denser areas. These features are consistent with patterns of migration including negative selection of migrants to less dense areas and positive selection towards denser areas. Nonetheless migration, even in the long run, accounts for little of the skill differences between denser and less dense areas. Finally, we find marked differences across age groups and some suggestions that much of the skill differences across areas can be explained by differences between occupational groups rather than within.

Keywords: skill distribution; wage distribution; sorting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J61 R12 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2012-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-eur, nep-geo, nep-lab, nep-lma, nep-mig and nep-ure
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Published - published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (6), 913-930

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