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 …

Density boosts productivity and innovation, improves access to goods and services, reduces
typical travel distances, encourages energy efficient construction and transport, and allows …

Governments around the world redistribute to distressed areas by conditioning taxes and
transfers on location. We show that when poor households are spatially concentrated …

Spatial disparities in income levels and worklessness in the European Union are profound,
persistent and may be widening. We describe disparities across metropolitan regions and …

Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in firm productivity—with the North
more productive than the South in Italy and the West more productive than the East in …

We use the most recent wave of the German Qualifications and Career Survey to reveal a
substantial wage premium in a Mincer regression for workers performing their job from …

Executive summary Spatial disparities in wages and employment rates are large and
persistent, although they are smaller today than 20 years ago. In 2019, average wages in …

In order to begin to discuss the nature, logic, and evolution of place-based policies in
different parts of the world, and their role today in the political economy of economic …

Across many sectors, research has established that management explains a notable portion
of productivity differences across organizations. A remaining question, however, is whether it …

We revisit the estimation of industry wage differentials using linked employer-employee
data. Cross-sectional industry differences overstate pay premiums due to unmeasured …