Measuring the Sorting Effect of Migration on Spatial Wage Disparities in Japan
Nakajima, Kentaro: Ryosuke Okamoto
『Journal of Applied Regional Science』 Issue 23 pp. 1-23 (2019/06/01)
This paper measures the effect of sorting on wage disparity. We extract worker skills by estimating the wage equation using Japanese individual data. We show that the skills of workers in metropolitan areas are 9.68% higher than the skills of workers in nonmetropolitan areas. In the counterfactual situation in which there is no migrati…