Original paper

Cities, lights, and skills in developing economies

Volume: 125, Pages: 103174 - 103174
Published: Sep 1, 2021
Abstract
In developed economies, agglomeration is skill-biased: larger cities are skill-abundant and exhibit higher skilled wage premia. This paper characterizes the spatial distributions of skills in Brazil, China, and India. To facilitate comparisons with developed-economy findings, we construct metropolitan areas for each of these economies by aggregating finer geographic units on the basis of contiguous areas of light in nighttime satellite images....
Paper Details
Title
Cities, lights, and skills in developing economies
Published Date
Sep 1, 2021
Volume
125
Pages
103174 - 103174
Citation AnalysisPro
  • Scinapse’s Top 10 Citation Journals & Affiliations graph reveals the quality and authenticity of citations received by a paper.
  • Discover whether citations have been inflated due to self-citations, or if citations include institutional bias.