Wage Gradients in an Enlarged EU

Helena Marques and Hugh Metcalf ()
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Hugh Metcalf: University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Discussion Paper Series from Department of Economics, Loughborough University

Abstract: In this paper we estimate a sectoral real wage equation for three regional blocs of the enlarged EU that we defined as North (wealthiest EU), South (Greece, Portugal and Spain) and East (acceding Central and Eastern European countries). The estimation results show that real wages react differently in each of the blocs to the impact of market size, location and factor endowments across a range of industrial sectors which differ by their degrees of economies of scale and skill-intensities in the presence of transport costs.

Keywords: wage equation; labour demand; human capital; EU enlargement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 F22 J31 L6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-12, Revised 2003-12
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