Schriftenreihe/Nr.:
43rd Congress of the European Regional Science Association: "Peripheries, Centres, and Spatial Development in the New Europe", 27th - 30th August 2003, Jyväskylä, Finland
Zusammenfassung:
This paper uses econometric methods to analyse causes of regional wage differentials in Denmark for the period1996-1999 and quantifies the importance of spatial proximity. Grouped data sets are used. Two concepts of distance are investigated. The first assumes that there is a positive production externality present in a centre that declines as the distance to the centre increases. Different definitions of a centre are tested. The second distance concept is commuting distance. Both distance measures have the expected sign and are significant, but the effects are small. JEL classification: J31 Key words: Wage differentials, distance, grouped data.