Productivity in cities: self-selection and sorting.
Productivity is high in cities partly because the urban environment acts as a self-selection mechanism. If workers have imperfect information about the quality of workers with whom they match and matches take place within cities, then high-ability workers will choose to live and work in expensive c...
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Department of Economics (University of Oxford)
2010
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