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来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.108,P.141-153

语言

英文

关键字

Black-white wage gap; Agglomeration economies; Urban wage premium; Employment density; Information networks; Racial inequality; SPATIAL MISMATCH; RACIAL SEGREGATION; CITIES; DIFFERENTIALS; AGGLOMERATION; DISPARITIES; COMMUTES; PEERS

作者单位

[Ananat, Elizabeth] Duke Univ, Box 90312, Durham, NC 27708 USA. [Ananat, Elizabeth] Sanford Sch Publ Policy, Natl Bur Econ Res, Box 90312, Durham, NC 27708 USA. [Shihe, Fu] Xiamen Univ, Sch Econ, Xiamen 361005, Peoples R China. [Shihe, Fu] Xiamen Univ, Gregory & Paula Chow Ctr Econ Res, Xiamen 361005, Peoples R China. [Ross, Stephen L.] Univ Connecticut, Dept Econ, Storrs, CT 06269 USA. Ross, SL (reprint author), Univ Connecticut, Dept Econ, Storrs, CT 06269 USA. E-Mail: elizabeth.ananat@duke.edu; fushihe@xmu.edu.cn; stephen.l.ross@uconn.edu

摘要

We establish a novel empirical fact about the black-white wage gap: looking both across and within metropolitan areas, increasing city size or employment density is associated with a larger black-white wage gap. The estimated effects represent between 9 and 18% of recent estimates of the black-white wage gap. Using a variety of techniques, we demonstrate that our within-city relationship is unlikely to be driven by racial differences in unobserved ability. Finally, we present evidence suggestive of a role for race-specific networks in explaining these differences in the black-white wage gap.