Market access and wages: A spatially heterogeneous approach

Dusan Paredes and Victor Iturra

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 116, issue 3, 349-353

Abstract: We empirically test the positive relationship between market access and wages stated by New Economic Geography. Contrary to most estimations in other countries, we find evidence of significant spatial heterogeneity of this elasticity across Chilean communities.

Keywords: New Economic Geography; Wages; Market access; Geographically weighted regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J3 R1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.03.022

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