Posted AT 7:26 AM EST on 03/03/08
Pegging your hopes on a big-city career?
The presence of workplace rivals drives young professionals to work longer and harder, especially in large cities - "a kind of urban rat race," according to a new study by University of Toronto professor William Strange.
The bigger the city, the more pronounced "the rat-race effect," Prof. Strange and co-author Stuart Rosenthal of Syracuse University report in a paper published in the most recent issue of The Review of Economics and Statistics.
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