Mardi 27 juin 2023

Le 27 juin 2023

Le prochain séminaire du GAINS a lieu 27 juin 2023 de 10h30 à 12h00 en salle T204.

Eric MENGUS (HEC Paris) présentera un papier intitulé Labor Market Polarization and The Great Urban Divergence, co-écrit avec Donald R. DAVIS (Columbia and NBER) et Tomasz MICHALSKI (HEC Paris). 

Abstract :  Labor market polarization is among the most important features in recent decades of advanced country labor markets. Yet key spatial aspects of this phenomenon remain under- explored. We develop four key facts that document the universality of polarization, a city-size difference in the shock magnitudes, a skew in the types of middle-paid jobs lost, and the role of polarization in the great urban divergence. Existing theories cannot account for these facts. Hence we develop a parsimonious theoretical account that does so by integrating elements from the literatures on labor market polarization and systems of cities with heterogeneous labor in spatial equilibrium.