Is the growing skill premium a purely metropolitan issue?

Chul Chung, Jeremy Clark and Bonggeun Kim ()

Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 102, issue 2, 73-75

Abstract: This paper documents that virtually all of the growth in the skilled wage premium over the 1980s in the United States was confined to metropolitan areas. Explanations for the growing skilled premium will therefore need to take location into account.

Keywords: Skilled; wage; premium; Metropolitan; areas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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