Local Fiscal Policies and Urban Wage Structures

Patricia Beeson, Lara Shore-Sheppard and Tara Watson
Additional contact information
Patricia Beeson: Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Public Finance Review, 2010, vol. 38, issue 5, 540-584

Abstract: It has long been recognized that average wages vary strikingly across regions and urban areas in part due to differences in local amenities and fiscal policies. However, analogous differences in wage dispersion remain relatively unexplored. The authors develop a model suggesting that, after accounting for individual characteristics, wage dispersion across income groups should reflect differences in the relative valuation of local amenities and fiscal policies. The authors empirically investigate whether there is a link between local taxes and expenditures and the degree of dispersion in the wage structure and find evidence that such a relationship exists.

Keywords: inequality; wage distributions; local expenditures; local taxes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1091142110373609 (text/html)

Related works:
Working Paper: Local Fiscal Policies and Urban Wage Structures (2010)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:pubfin:v:38:y:2010:i:5:p:540-584

DOI: 10.1177/1091142110373609

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Public Finance Review
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().