# Why finance jobs are widening income inequality in cities around the world
**Date de l'événement :** 08/08/2026
* Publié le 08/08/2026

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![Gratte-ciel dans la City de Londres, au Royaume-Uni.](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/memory-sp-pr.appspot.com/o/prod%2F1y7CgDOTakHDiB3dgoi0%2FprojectsMedias%2FC0K36spDXqZPuqqWk9ST%2Fthumbs%2Fshutterstock_2460962645(1)_kszt0_1600x900.png?alt=media&token=a1097307-4a8a-47d5-963f-121212de1ed3) 

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Try to imagine the history of New York without Wall Street, or London without the City. It’s not easy.  
  
Hosting a country’s main financial markets shapes a city’s identity, raises its profile and creates jobs. But there are trade-offs. By acting as a magnet for high-paying finance jobs and related professions, many financial cities suffer from particularly high levels of income inequality.  
  
In fact, alongside globalisation and the clustering of highly skilled workers, our research has found that the presence of a financial market is a major driver of the growing concentration of top earners and earnings inequality in select cities.  
  
In a study conducted by two dozen researchers, we examined top earnings in cities in 10 countries across Europe, North America and Asia, analysing two decades of linked employer-employee data.  
  
For every country studied, we compare two cities: the financial hub housing the main national markets and related industries, and a second, comparison city that is closest in terms of population, employment and share of GDP.  
  
In the US, for instance, we compared New York to Los Angeles. In Spain, we compared Madrid to Barcelona, in Japan it was Tokyo and Osaka, in France, Paris and Lyon, the Netherlands, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, and so on.  
  
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## Auteur(s)
Marta M. Elvira, Nils Neumann, Olivier Godechot

### Date
08/08/2026

### Type(s) de ressource
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### Discipline(s)
`#Sociologie` 

### Thématique(s)
`#Travail / relations professionnelles / emploi` `#Finance / investissement` 

### Langue(s)
`#Anglais` 

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Mistervlad / Shutterstock

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`#Recherche` 

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`#Accès libre` 

### Partenaire(s)
**[The Conversation](https://sources.sciencespo.fr/structure/the-conversation_QdYqgYnzKVyePLgMp3g8)** 


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`#The Conversation` 

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**Sujet de la photographie** : Gratte-ciel dans la City de Londres, au Royaume-Uni.

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