WIDER Working Paper 2024/52-Economic geography determinants of spatial wage disparities in South Africa: Evidence from a firm‐level panel
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- 35
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- Finland
Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction 3
- 2 Theoretical framework 5
- 3 Literature review 6
- 4 Empirical specification, data, and variable construction 8
- 4.1 Empirical specification 8
- 4.2 Data1F 9
- 4.3 Variable construction 10
- Dependent variable: individual wages 10
- Individual and firm-level characteristics 10
- Location-specific aggregate variables 11
- Market access 12
- 5 Results 12
- 5.1 Exploratory spatial data analysis: a glimpse of the data 12
- 5.2 The new economic geography model estimation 16
- Estimation of the Mincer equation 16
- Wages and market access 17
- Robustness checks: additional controls 20
- Robustness checks: instrumentation and agglomeration economies 22
- 6 Conclusion 24
- References 25
- Appendix A: Tables and Figures 31
- Appendix B: Data 33
