Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
August 15, 2013
Summary:
This paper estimates individual wage equations to test two rival non-nested theories of economic agglomeration, namely New Economic Geography (NEG), as represented by the NEG wage equation and urban economic (UE) theory, in which wages relate to employment density. In the U.K. context, we find that for male respondents, there is no significant evidence that wage levels are an outcome of the mechanisms suggested by NEG or UE theory, but this is not the case for female respondents. We speculate on the reasons for the gender difference.
Published in
Journal of Regional Science
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 53 , p.443 -463
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jors.12020
ISSN
224146
Subjects
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