Wages and the City. Evidence from Italy

Labour Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1040-1061

  Di Addario, Sabrina ^a   Patacchini, Eleonora ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agglomeration externalities; Population clustering; Urbanization; Wages; Worker mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 51149085179     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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