The Urban Labour Market

Kenneth Button

Chapter 4 in Urban Economics, 1976, pp 53-70 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Besides containing industry and commerce, cities are concentrations of people, and the urban labour market determines whether these people will have work and, if so, the wage rate they will be paid. In less developed countries the paramount problem is providing sufficient employment for the rapidly expanding urban populations; in the Western world the economist is more interested in labour flows between urban areas and between jobs within urban concentrations and with wage differentials between various forms of employment at different locations. This chapter concentrates on these latter problems.

Keywords: Labour Market; Wage Rate; Gravity Model; Racial Discrimination; Wage Differential (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1976
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-15661-0_4

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