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Spatial Equilibrium In The Labor Market, Philip E. Graves
Spatial Equilibrium In The Labor Market, Philip E. Graves
PHILIP E GRAVES
The paper discusses two approaches to spatial equilibrium in the labor market. The more traditional approach of labor economics assumes wage differentials represent arbitrageable differences in utility, with implications 1) that migration should be toward higher wage areas and 2) that migration flows will lead to convergence in wages over space. The more recent approach of urban/regional economics follows Roback in examining the implications of assumed equilibrium in utility over space. In this view wage differentials are compensatory (along with rent differentials) for amenity variation over space. The implications for wage convergence over space are complicated, but in general there …
Rural To Urban Migration: Population Distribution Patterns 19, Philip E. Graves
Rural To Urban Migration: Population Distribution Patterns 19, Philip E. Graves
PHILIP E GRAVES
The abstract would be exactly the same as the introduction to the paper, and need not be repeated here.
The Urban Growth Question, Philip E. Graves
The Urban Growth Question, Philip E. Graves
PHILIP E GRAVES
City size is controversial...we present a paper that trades off the benefits and the costs of increased size. The issues are inevitably present.