What if Cities Are No Longer the Land of Opportunity for Low-Skilled Workers? - The New York Times
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Summary:
Workers, whether with a college degree or not, could long count on earning more in denser urban areas than in rural ones. Today, that pattern holds for highly educated workers — and has in fact grown much stronger. For workers without any college education, the added wage benefits of dense cities have mostly disappeared in Mr. Autor’s data: