Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/322688 
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Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers Series No. 05-30
Publisher: 
Utrecht University, Utrecht School of Economics, Tjalling C. Koopmans Research Institute, Utrecht
Abstract: 
This paper estimates a spatial wage structure for the United States.I employ the market-access and supplier-access method of Reddingand Venables (2004), where access is determined using interstate tradedata. Economic geography models predict that state-level wages arecorrelated to this measure, owing to higher levels of demand and betteravailability of intermediate goods in easily accessible regions. Aftercorrecting for omitted-variable bias with exogenous 'first nature' regressorsand using the appropriate instruments, I find that the explanatorypower of access-variables is weak in this dataset.
Subjects: 
Spatial wage structure
United States
Economic Geography
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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