Does the urban wage premium imply a higher firms’ labor share in big cities
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 21463685 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Florian Mayneris (0000-0002-6469-449X, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2025 |
| Volumen | 115 |
| Páginas | 104155 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2025-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Regional Science and Urban Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0166-0462 • E-ISSN: 1879-2308 |
| Editorial | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2025.104155 |
| OpenAlex | W4414785955 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 43 |
I find that on average, the firm-level labor share slightly increases with local employment density in the manufacturing sector, but this relationship is heterogeneous across industries. Through the lens of a theoretical framework featuring a CES production function, I show that this heterogeneity arises because both the density-elasticity of the relative cost of labor (adjusted for productivity) and the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor vary across industries. The magnitude of the effects I find implies that in several industries, agglomeration economies are not Hicks-neutral. Moreover, the higher the density-elasticity of the firms’ labor share, the lower their propensity to locate in denser areas, all else being equal
Efficiency wage · Wage · Wage growth · Wage Inequality · Wage share · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
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Fixed and random effects models
Firm Sorting and Agglomeration
The Global Decline of the Labor Share
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The Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications
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The Costs of Agglomeration
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The plant size-place effect
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Spatial wage disparities
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Urban agglomeration, capital augmenting technology, and labor market equilibrium
Urban agglomeration economies in the presence of technical change
The economic effects of density
Efficiency of resource usage and city size
Marshall's scale economies
Industrial Development in Cities
Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers
Growth in Cities
How Costly Are Markups
Automation and New Tasks
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| Altamente citado | No |