Economy-Wide Spillovers from Booms: Long-Distance Commuting and the Spread of Wage Effects
研究加拿大资源繁荣如何通过远距离通勤和工资谈判渠道，对非资源行业工人产生工资溢出效应，解释了2000-2012年间加拿大实际平均工资增长49%的原因。
Since 2000, US real average wages stagnated or declined while Canadian wages increased. We investigate the role of the Canadian resource boom in explaining this difference. We focus on wage spillovers to nonresource workers through a bargaining channel. We find that long-distance commuting to resource regions had substantial spillover effects on noncommuters in sending regions. Through spillovers, we account for 49% of the increase in the real mean wage in Canada between 2000 and 2012. We also find long-distance commuting effects in the United States. We conclude that long-distance commuting integrates regions, spreading benefits and costs of booms across the economy.