The influence of neighborhood characteristics on wages and eabor supply in an urban context : the case of a latin-american city

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Borradores de Economía; No. 844
Date published
2014-09-11
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2014-09-11
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Morales-Zurita, Leonardo Fabio
Cardona-Sosa, Lina Marcela
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spa
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Abstract
Using data from Medellín, second largest city in Colombia, we asses in this paper how a set of neighborhood characteristics determines wages and labor supply for workers in the city. We use GIS data to construct measures of the quality of environments whe
JEL Codes
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; InfrastructureJ01 - Labor Economics: GeneralJ22 - Time Allocation and Labor SupplyR21 - Housing Demand
Keywords
Labor economics ; Labor supply ; Urban analysis ; Housing demand ;
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https://repositorio.banrep.gov.co/handle/20.500.12134/6131
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12134/6131
https://doi.org/10.32468/be.844
https://ideas.repec.org/p/bdr/borrec/844.html
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