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作者

Carl Gaigné;Hans R.A. Koster;Fabien Moizeau;Jacques-François Thisse

来源

来源 JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.128,P.

语言

英文

关键字

Cities;Social stratification;Income;Amenities;Commuting;R14;R23;R53;Z13

作者单位

INRA, UMR1302, SMART-LERECO Rennes, France;CREATE, Laval University, Quebec, Canada;Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands;HSE University, Russia;Tinbergen Institute, the Netherlands;CEPR;CREM (Condorcet Center), Université de Rennes 1, 7 Place Hoche, 35000 Rennes, France;CORE-UCLouvain, Belgium;INRA, UMR1302, SMART-LERECO Rennes, France;CREATE, Laval University, Quebec, Canada;Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands;HSE University, Russia;Tinbergen Institute, the Netherlands;CEPR;CREM (Condorcet Center), Université de Rennes 1, 7 Place Hoche, 35000 Rennes, France;CORE-UCLouvain, Belgium

摘要

We develop a new model of a “featureful” city in which locations are differentiated by two attributes, that is, the distance to employment centers and the accessibility to given amenities. The residential equilibrium involves the spatial separation of households sharing similar incomes. Under Stone-Geary preferences, amenities and commuting are subsumed into a location-quality index. Hence, the assignment of households to locations becomes one-dimensional. Since residential choices are driven by the location-quality index, the income mapping may be fully characterized. Using a rich micro-dataset on the Netherlands, we show that household income sorting is indeed driven by amenities and commuting times.