
handle: 10230/33838 , 10419/91565 , 10419/80031
We investigate the role of skill complementarities in production and mobility across cities. The nature of the complementarities determines the equilibrium skill distribution across cities. With extreme-skill complementarity, the skill distribution has thicker tails in large cities; with top-skill complementarity, there is first-order stochastic dominance. Using wage and housing price data, we find robust evidence of thick tails in large cities: large cities disproportionately attract both high- and lowskilled workers, while average skills are constant across city size. This pattern of spatial sorting is consistent with extreme-skill complementarity, where the productivity of high-skilled workers and of the providers of low-skilled services are mutually enhanced.
ddc:330, city size, R10, Mobilitat laboral, complementarity, cities, sorting, price-theoretic measure of skills, population mobility, city size, matching theory, general equilibrium, skill distribution, cities, J61, price-theoretic measure of skills, population mobility, matching theory, general equilibrium, sorting, skill distribution, J60, complementarity, Mobilitat social, jel: jel:J60, jel: jel:J61, jel: jel:R10
ddc:330, city size, R10, Mobilitat laboral, complementarity, cities, sorting, price-theoretic measure of skills, population mobility, city size, matching theory, general equilibrium, skill distribution, cities, J61, price-theoretic measure of skills, population mobility, matching theory, general equilibrium, sorting, skill distribution, J60, complementarity, Mobilitat social, jel: jel:J60, jel: jel:J61, jel: jel:R10
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