Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Eleonora BARTOLONI
Author-X-Name-First: Eleonora
Author-X-Name-Last: BARTOLONI
Author-Email: bartolon@istat.it
Author-Workplace-Name: ISTAT
Author-Name: Andrea MARINO
Author-X-Name-First: Andrea
Author-X-Name-Last: MARINO
Author-Email: anmarino@istat.it
Author-Workplace-Name: ISTAT
Author-Name: Maurizio BAUSSOLA 
Author-X-Name-First: Maurizio
Author-X-Name-Last: BAUSSOLA
Author-Email: maurizio.baussola@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: DISCE, Università Cattolica
Author-Name: Davide ROMANIELLO
Author-X-Name-First: Davide
Author-X-Name-Last: ROMANIELLO
Author-Email: quarto.autore@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: DISCE, Università Cattolica
Title: Urban non-urban agglomeration divide: is there a gap in productivity and wages?
Abstract: Abstract of the paper.
This paper investigates the productivity-wage relation in the Italian Lombardy region using a novel and integrated database of firms’ plant. We find that agglomeration economies play a significant role in affecting productivity and wages differentials at the local level. However, this effect depends on the technological and knowledge-based resources characterising the industrial mix within the urban and non-urban agglomerations, also controlling for firm-specific factors concerning, in particular, job-related characteristics. High-density urban areas show a positive wage gap in the high technology and knowledge-intensive services, brought about higher productivity. In contrast, manufacturing plants show a reduction of the gap only partially offset by sectoral specificities.
Length: 55
Creation-Date: 2020-11
Publication-Status: Published in Review of Economics, Month aaaa, pages nn1-nn2
File-URL: http://www.dipartimenti.unicatt.it/dises-dises-wp_20_148.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2020
Number: dises148-11
Classification-JEL:R12, R15, R30, L25, C21, J24, J31
Keywords:  labour productivity, wage determination, spatial analysis
Handle: RePEc:ctc:serie2:dises2047