Does the Expansion of City Size Lead to Skill Premium? ——Empirical Evidence from China Labor-force Dynamic Survey Data

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Does the Expansion of City Size Lead to Skill Premium? ——Empirical Evidence from China Labor-force Dynamic Survey Data

WANG Jia¹, XU Wei²

1. Institute for Suzhong Development, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China;
2. School of Economics and Management, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan 430023, China

Received:2019-10-21 Online:2020-07-10 Published:2020-08-13

城市规模扩大带来技能溢价吗?——来自CLDS数据的证据

王佳¹, 徐玮²

1.扬州大学苏中发展研究院,江苏扬州 225009;
2.武汉轻工大学经济与管理学院,湖北武汉 430023

作者简介:王佳(1989-),女,湖北荆州人,扬州大学苏中发展研究院助理研究员,博士;徐玮(1987-),男,湖北黄石人,武汉轻工大学经济与管理学院讲师,博士。
基金资助:
江苏省社会科学基金项目(18EYD001);江苏省高校哲学社会科学基金项目(2018SJA1145)

Abstract

Abstract: Based on the data from China Labor-force Dynamic Survey in 2014 and 2016 and the data from China Urban Statistical Yearbook, this paper examines the impact of the city size on the wage of heterogeneous labor. It is found that there is a positive relation between the city size and the average wage after considering the spatial sorting effect. Moreover, the wage premium is larger for workers with greater cognitive skills or social skills. The findings of this paper indicate that the expansion of the urban scale leads to skill premium, which provides a new perspective for understanding the spatial variation of wage gap, and provides a theoretical reference for the formulation of the urban development strategy.

Key words: City Size, Cognitive Skill, Social Skill, Skill Premium

摘要： 本文利用2014和2016年中国劳动力动态追踪调查数据和地级市统计数据,实证研究城市规模对异质性劳动力工资收入的影响。研究结果发现,考虑高技能劳动力在大城市的群分效应后,城市规模扩大能促进劳动力平均工资水平的提高。异质性劳动力从城市规模扩张中获得的工资溢价差异较大,对认知技能和社交技能更高的劳动力,城市规模扩张对其工资水平的促进作用更大,城市规模扩大带来技能溢价。本文的研究为理解工资差距在空间上的分布差异提供新的视角,同时为城市发展战略的制定提供理论参考。

关键词: 城市规模, 认知技能, 社交技能, 技能溢价

CLC Number:

C971

WANG Jia, XU Wei. Does the Expansion of City Size Lead to Skill Premium? ——Empirical Evidence from China Labor-force Dynamic Survey Data[J]. , 2020, 36(7): 13-22.

王佳, 徐玮. 城市规模扩大带来技能溢价吗?——来自CLDS数据的证据[J]. 财经论丛, 2020, 36(7): 13-22.

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Does the Expansion of City Size Lead to Skill Premium? ——Empirical Evidence from China Labor-force Dynamic Survey Data

城市规模扩大带来技能溢价吗?——来自CLDS数据的证据

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