Sectoral Shares, Specialisation and Metropolitan Wages in the United States, 1969-96

Matthew Drennan, Shannon Larsen, Jose Lobo, Deborah Strumsky and Wahyu Utomo
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Matthew Drennan: Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, 212 West Sibley Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA, mpd12@cornell.edu
Shannon Larsen: Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, 212 West Sibley Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA, .sm119@cornell.ude
Jose Lobo: Graduate Field of Regional Science, Cornell University, 108 West Sibley Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA, jl25@cornell.edu
Deborah Strumsky: Graduate Field of Regional Science, Cornell University, 108 West Sibley Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA, das41@cornell.ed =u
Wahyu Utomo: Graduate Field of Regional Science, Cornell University, 108 West Sibley Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA, wull@cornell.edu

Urban Studies, 2002, vol. 39, issue 7, 1129-1142

Abstract: We investigate the effect of specialisation upon the level of metropolitan wage per worker. Specialisation is measured by the share of metropolitan earnings in each of five traded goods and services sectors. Sectoral specialisations are assumed to be determinants of location-specific productivity, which in turn is treated as a term in a metropolitan production function. Panel data are used for estimating that production function for 313 metropolitan areas in the US, over the long period 1969-96 and two shorter periods. We find that some specialisations raise average metropolitan wages, some lower it and some have no effect, and that the effects of specialisation differ by time-period.

Date: 2002
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