Labor Market Polarization and The Great Urban Divergence

Donald Davis (), Eric Mengus and Tomasz Michalski

No 26955, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Labor market polarization is among the most important features in recent decades of advanced country labor markets. Yet key spatial aspects of this phenomenon remain under-explored. We develop four key facts that document the universality of polarization, a city-size difference in the shock magnitudes, a skew in the types of middle-paid jobs lost, and the role of polarization in the great urban divergence. Existing theories cannot account for these facts. Hence we develop a parsimonious theoretical account that does so by integrating elements from the literatures on labor market polarization and systems of cities with heterogeneous labor in spatial equilibrium.

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Date: 2020-04
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