Regional price levels and the agglomeration wage differential in western Germany

被引：26

作者：

Blien, Uwe ^{[1
]}

Gartner, Hermann ^{[1
]}

Stueber, Heiko ^{[1
]}

Wolf, Katja ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Inst Employment Res IAB, D-90478 Nurnberg, Germany

来源：

ANNALS OF REGIONAL SCIENCE | 2009年 / 43卷 / 01期

关键词：

CITIES; WORKERS;

D O I：

10.1007/s00168-007-0205-8

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

We analyse whether wage differences between cities and rural areas in western Germany are due to unobserved differences in regional price levels. Since regional prices are available for only 10% of the regions we use multiple imputation to generate prices for all regions. Our results show that the nominal agglomeration wage differential is 25%, whereas the real differential is 19%. If we control for the composition of the labour force and jobs, the real wage differential is 4%. If we additionally control for differences in regional building land prices the agglomeration wage differential vanishes.

引用

页码：71 / 88

页数：18

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