Spatial Sorting: Why New York, Los Angeles and Detroit attract the greatest minds as well as the unskilled
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- Jan Eeckhout & Roberto Pinheiro & Kurt Schmidheiny, 2010. "Spatial Sorting: Why New York, Los Angeles and Detroit Attract the Greatest Minds as well as the Unskilled," CESifo Working Paper Series 3274, CESifo Group Munich.
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cities; general equilibrium; matching theory; population dynamics; sorting; wage distribution;JEL classification:
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- R1 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics
- R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
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