Regional Wage Disparities in Europe: What role for Market Access?

This paper uses a New Economic Geography model to test for wagedisparities in the European Union. We derive and estimate an econometric specificationrelating wages to a distance weighted sum of regional GDP’s. The empirical estimationsof the model were carried out for a sample of 160 NUTS2 regions i...

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Main Authors: Jesús López-Rodríguez, Andrés Faíña
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AECR 2007-11-01
Series:Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research
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Online Access:http://www.aecr.org/images/ImatgesArticles/2008/01%20Lopez-Rod.pdf