The spatial segregation of college-educated and non-college-educated workers between
commuting zones in the United States has steadily grown since 1980. We summarize prior …

In this review, I integrate a wide range of literature that has examined how the “geographic
mobility” of high-skilled workers creates value for organizations and individuals. Drawing on …

We show that the COVID-19 pandemic brought house price and rent declines in city centers,
and price and rent increases away from the center, thereby flattening the bid-rent curve in …

The trend of rising income inequality in Germany since the mid-1990s is strongly amplified
when considering income after housing expenditure. The income share of housing …

We estimate intergenerational income mobility in Italy using administrative data from tax
returns. Our estimates of mobility are higher than prior work using survey data and indirect …

How do firms set wages across space? Using job-level vacancy data and a survey of HR
managers, we show that 40-50% of a job's posted wages are identical across locations …

In recent decades, gentrification has transformed American central city neighborhoods. I
estimate a spatial equilibrium model to show that the rising value of high-skilled workers' …

We document that international migrants concentrate more in expensive cities—the more so,
the lower the prices in their origin countries are—and consume less locally than comparable …

Do individuals care about their relative income? While this is a long-standing hypothesis,
revealed-preference evidence remains elusive. We provide a unique test by studying …

We examine the impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for
young college graduates using China's 2005 1 Percent Population Sample Survey …