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Speaker: Zulia Orozco
Affiliation: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexicali
Abstract :
How is knowledge transmitted across borders? We exploit the construction of the Øresund bridge which joined the capital region of Denmark with Malmö in Sweden, creating an integrated labor market. The bridge led to a steep increase in cross-border commuting, predominantly one-way from Sweden to Denmark. We examine the consequences of Swedish cross-border workers on the productivity of Danish firms and the wages of their close coworkers. We find substantial positive effects in Danish firms that (exogenously) increase the share of Swedish commuters, as cross-border commuters carry a productivity premium that likely reflects knowledge spillovers. To examine the extent of knowledge spillovers further, we estimate the impact of cross border commuters on wages of incumbent coworkers in occupations of the commuters and find a positive effect. We also find that high-skilled commuters and commuters with experience in high-tech occupations in the Swedish labor market have the strongest spillover effects on the wages of Danish coworkers.
Bio: Zulia Orozco, Ph.D.
Full Time Researcher at the Social Research Institute (IIS for its Spanish acronym) at the Baja California State University (UABC for its Spanish acronym), and member of the National System of Researchers. Her areas of interest are: cross-border necropolitics, firearms trafficking and intentional homicides in the Tijuana - San Diego region, within the framework of cross-border security and illegal markets.
She holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology, a master's degree in Law and a Ph.D. in Urban Studies. She also completed a post-doctorate at the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas - UNAM. She has been visiting scholar at CUNY, UCSD, University of Oxford, Jagiellonian University and, UFSC in Brazil. Dr. Orozco is a Fulbright Alumni.