Using linked employer-employee data from Brazil, we document a large gender pay gap due to women working at lower-paying employers with better nonpay attributes. To interpret …
To decide the number, size, and location of its plants, a firm balances the benefit of delivering goods from multiple plants with the cost of setting up and managing these plants …
High-skilled workers and high-productivity firms co-locate in large cities. In this paper, I study how the two-sided sorting of workers and firms affects spatial earnings inequality, efficiency …
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This paper studies the spatial distribution of income and housing in cities. I develop an assignment model approach to the monocentric city model with a continuous income …
This thesis studies a range of issues in spatial and international economics. The first two chapters focus on spatial earnings inequality across cities; the last chapter studies …
I show that unobserved sorting patterns of firms and workers across space can account for the tight link between rising aggregate wage inequality and rising spatial inequality in West …
Essays on the Macroeconomics of Frictional Labor Markets Page 1 Essays on the Macroeconomics of Frictional Labor Markets Lukas Friedrich Mann A Dissertation …
This dissertation revolves around two themes: the macroeconomic consequences of heterogeneity in labor markets, and the degree of income risk sharing in an economy …
Earnings inequality in Austria has increased over the last two decades. I study the relative contributions of firms and industries to the rising variance of earnings. I use a matched …