Publication type
Journal Article
Author
Publication date
September 15, 2013
Summary:
This paper combines individual data from the British Household Panel Survey and yearly population estimates for England to analyse the impact that cultural diversity has on individual wages. Do people living in more diverse areas earn higher wages after controlling for other observable and unobservable characteristics? The results show that cultural diversity is positively associated with wages, but only when cross-section data are used, while panel data estimations show no impact of diversity. Since natives with comparatively higher skills – and wages – tend to self-select into more diverse areas, cross-section analyses may produce upwardly biassed results.
Published in
Regional Science and Urban Economics
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 43 , p.797 -807
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2013.07.004
ISSN
1660462
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Notes
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