【主讲】傅十和 副教授 (厦门大学王亚南经济研究院)
【主题】Workplace Social Interaction and Wage Premium
【时间】2012年5月10日 (周四) 15：30-17：00
【地点】上海财经大学经济学院楼801室
【语言】英文
【摘要】Many existing studies use employment density to measure labor market agglomeration economies and find that agglomeration economies raise wages in employment clusters. We argue that social interaction is the channel through which agglomeration economies take place. Using the 2000 U.S. census data and occupation attributes data, we construct variables to measure a worker’s face-to-face communication, non-face-to-face communication, and overall social interaction skills. We find that social interaction skills contribute to wages, consistent with the studies on the returns to skills in urban labor markets. More importantly, a worker with little social interaction skills cannot benefit from agglomeration economies and workers with stronger social interaction skills benefit more from agglomeration economies. The findings are robust to many specifications and support the idea that the fundamental role of cities is to promote social interactions.
