Unequal Britain: How Real Are Regional Disparities?

Stephen Gibbons and Henry Overman

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Abstract: Average earnings vary widely across the regions of Britain, a fact that has prompted many decades of policies aimed at reducing regional disparities. But as Henry Overman and Steve Gibbons demonstrate, such variation reveals little, especially if we ignore regional differences in the cost of living and availability of local amenities.

Keywords: wage; disparities; labour; Britain; spatial equilibrium; amenity value; housing market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J60 R11 R23 R29 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-10
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