The urban-rural job quality differentials

Davide Lunardon ()
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Davide Lunardon: Gran Sasso Science Institute

No 2024-05, Discussion Paper series in Regional Science & Economic Geography from Gran Sasso Science Institute, Social Sciences

Abstract: The paper provides a comprehensive analysis on the multiple linkages that connect urbanization economies with job quality. The empirical analysis uses EWCS 2015 individual-level data for 35 European countries. Three spatial mechanisms -urban rat race, better job matching, and job satisfaction externalitiesare explored on six job quality indicators. Overall, rural workers report higher job quality as compared to urban. More specifically, the analysis corroborates the extant/emerging evidence on the detrimental mechanisms associated to the urban rat race which engenders competition and rivalry behaviours. Urban workers are partially compensated from higher job matching possibilities but, apart for selfemployees, an urban career premium never emerges. A set of robustness checks confirm the main results, yet highlighting heterogeneities associated to different occupational groups and type of urbanization.

Keywords: Job quality; Urban-Rural divide; Urban Rat Race; EWCS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 J28 J32 J81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49 pages
Date: 2024-03, Revised 2024-10
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