全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP14287 Building Bridges and Widening Gaps: Wage Gains and Equity Concerns of Labor Market Expansions

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP14287
	DP14287 Building Bridges and Widening Gaps: Wage Gains and Equity Concerns of Labor Market Expansions
	Katrine Løken; Aline Bütikofer; Alexander Willén
发表日期	2020-01-07
出版年	2020
语种	英语
摘要	We exploit the construction of the Oresund bridge, which connects a medium-sized city in Sweden to the capital of Denmark, to study the labor market effects of gaining access to a larger labor market. Using unique cross-country matched registry data that allow us to follow individuals across the border, we find that the bridge led to a substantial increase in cross-country commuting among Swedish residents. This effect is driven both by extensive and intensive margin employment responses, and translates into a 15% increase in the average wage of Swedish residents. However, the wage effects are unevenly distributed: the effect is largest for high-educated men and smallest for low-educated women. Thus, the wage gains come at the cost of increased income inequality and a widening of the gender wage gap, both within- and across-households. We show that these inequality effects are driven not only by differences in the propensity to commute, but also by educational specialization.
主题	Labour Economics
关键词	Labor market expansions Wages Equity concerns
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp14287
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543179
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Katrine Løken,Aline Bütikofer,Alexander Willén. DP14287 Building Bridges and Widening Gaps: Wage Gains and Equity Concerns of Labor Market Expansions. 2020.