The Effects of Agglomeration on Wages : Evidence from the Micro-level
Fingleton, Bernard and Longhi, Simonetta (2011) The Effects of Agglomeration on Wages : Evidence from the Micro-level. Discussion paper. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
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Abstract
This paper estimates individual wage equations in order 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. The paper makes an original contribution by evidently being the first empirical paper to examine the issue of agglomeration processes associated with contemporary theory working with micro-level data, highlighting the role of gender and other individual-level characteristics. 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.
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Item type: Monograph(Discussion paper) ID code: 67940 Dates: DateEventMay 2011PublishedNotes: Discussion paper. Subjects: Social Sciences > Communities. Classes. Races > Regional economics. Space in economics Department: Strathclyde Business School > Economics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 21 May 2019 15:49 Last modified: 05 Sep 2024 01:20 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/67940