The Spatial Distribution of Human Capital: Can It Really Be Explained by Regional Differences in Market Access?

Enrique Lopez-Bazo and Burhan Karahasan

No 201102, IREA Working Papers from University of Barcelona, Research Institute of Applied Economics

Abstract: This paper tests the robustness of estimates of market access impact on regional variability in human capital, as previously derived in the NEG literature. Our hypothesis is that these estimates of the coefficient of market access, in fact, capture the effects of regional differences in the industrial mix and the spatial dependence in the distribution of human capital. Results for the Spanish provinces indicate that the estimated impact of market access vanishes and becomes non-significant once these two elements are included in the empirical analysis.

Keywords: human capital; geography; market access; spatial dependence. JEL classification:C21; I21; R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2011-02, Revised 2011-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-hrm and nep-ure
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