Re-evaluating the urban wage premium: the changing roles of geographical and job transitions for women and men

D'Costa, S. 2024. Re-evaluating the urban wage premium: the changing roles of geographical and job transitions for women and men. Regional Science and Urban Economics. 108 104038. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104038

Title Re-evaluating the urban wage premium: the changing roles of geographical and job transitions for women and men
TypeJournal article
AuthorsD'Costa, S.
Abstract

This paper investigates gender as a new source of heterogeneity in the urban wage premium, using a representative panel of 1.2 million worker observations in Great Britain over the period 1999-2019. Pre-2008, women’s urban wage premium was more than twice as large as men’s (2.8% versus 1.2%), but this difference disappears during the Financial Crisis as women’s urban wage premium drastically and permanently drops. This drop is due to the disappearance of women’s relative sharing advantages. Moreover, contrary to men, women’s urban wage premium is now driven by a wage penalty incurred when changing occupation while transitioning from urban to rural jobs.

Article number104038
JournalRegional Science and Urban Economics
Journal citation108
ISSN0166-0462
Year2024
PublisherElsevier
Publisher's version
License
CC BY 4.0
File Access Level
Open (open metadata and files)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104038
Web address (URL)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104038
Publication dates
Published online02 Jul 2024
Published in printSep 2024

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