Spatial Sorting and Inequality

被引:15
作者
Diamond, Rebecca [1 ,2 ]
Gaubert, Cecile [2 ,3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Stanford Univ, Dept Econ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[2] Natl Bur Econ Res, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[3] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Econ, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[4] Ctr Econ Policy Res, London, England
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
inequality; agglomeration; sorting; location choice; CITIES; PRODUCTIVITY; WORKERS; GROWTH; DETERMINANTS; EDUCATION; LOCATION; CITY;
D O I
10.1146/annurev-economics-051420-110839
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
The spatial segregation of college-educated and non-college-educated workers between commuting zones in the United States has steadily grown since 1980. We summarize prior work on sorting and location and document new descriptive patterns on how sorting and locations have changed over the past four decades. We find that there has been a shift in the sorting of college-educated workers from cities centered primarily around production in 1980 to cities centered around consumption by 2017. We develop a spatial equilibrium model to understand these patterns and highlight key places where further research is needed. Our framework helps understand the causes and consequences of changes in spatial sorting; their impact on inequality; and how they respond to, and feed into, the changing nature of cities.
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页码:795 / 819
页数:25
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