Labor market pooling and occupational agglomeration

Todd M. Gabe and Jaison Robert Abel ()

No 392, Staff Reports from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: This paper examines the micro-foundations of occupational agglomeration in U.S. metropolitan areas, with an emphasis on labor market pooling. Controlling for a wide range of occupational attributes, including proxies for the use of specialized machinery and for the importance of knowledge spillovers, we find that jobs characterized by a unique knowledge base exhibit higher levels of geographic concentration than do occupations with generic knowledge requirements. Further, by analyzing co-agglomeration patterns, we find that occupations with similar knowledge requirements tend to co-agglomerate. Both results provide new evidence on the importance of labor market pooling as a determinant of occupational agglomeration.

Keywords: Labor market; Labor mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2009

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