 Sorting and local wages and skill distributions in FrancePierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon and Sébastien Roux () PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) from HAL 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: Sorting; Wage distribution; Skill distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (4), pp.663-680. ⟨10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2012.11.003⟩ There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:pseptp:halshs-00754585 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2012.11.003 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) from HAL |
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