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Regional price levels and the agglomeration wage differential in western Germany
Blien, Uwe; Gartner, Hermann; Stüber, Heiko; u. a. (2009): „Regional price levels and the agglomeration wage differential in western Germany“. Berlin ; Heidelberg: Springer doi: 10.1007/s00168-007-0205-8.
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The annals of regional science : an international journal of urban, regional and environmental research and policy ; official journal of the Western Regional Science Association
ISSN:
0570-1864
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Year of publication:
2009
Volume:
43
Issue:
1
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English
Abstract:
"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."
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Article
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July 29, 2015
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