We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases
in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and …

We offer a unified analysis of the growth of low-skill service occupations between 1980 and
2005 and the concurrent polarization of US employment and wages. We hypothesize that …

This paper empirically assesses the incidence and efficiency of Round I of the federal urban
Empowerment Zone (EZ) program using confidential microdata from the Decennial Census …

In this paper, we begin by documenting substantial variation in house price growth across
neighborhoods within a city during city-wide housing price booms. We then present a model …

We document large long-run differences in average house price appreciation across
metropolitan areas over the past 50 years, and show they can be explained by an inelastic …

Negli Stati Uniti l'economia postindustriale, basata sul sapere e sull'innovazione, sta
cambiando profondamente il mercato del lavoro, sia per la tipologia dei beni prodotti sia per …

This article tests whether the correlation between wages and concentration of employment
can be explained by unobserved worker productivity. Residential location is used as a proxy …

Why is prosperity distributed so unevenly across America's metropolitan areas? While
population growth has gone disproportionately towards the Sunbelt, high-skill areas have …

Abstract Italian Abstract: Il presente lavoro sfrutta i dati fiscali per un'analisi della
distribuzione del reddito a livello territoriale in Italia. Nel 2011 l'indice di Gini, la misura più …

We study the impact of politician salary on electoral competitiveness and political
performance using new data on US state legislators and governors over the last sixty years …