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Expensive and low-price places to live: regional price levels and the agglomeration wage differential in Western Germany
Teure und billige Plätze zum Leben: regionale Preisunterschiede und die Agglomeration der Lohndifferenziale in Westdeutschland
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Abstract "Recently, there has been a renewed interest in the agglomeration wage differential. One of the open research question is whether wage differences between large cities and the rural country are due to unobserved differences in regional price levels. In this paper information on regional price levels... view more
"Recently, there has been a renewed interest in the agglomeration wage differential. One of the open research question is whether wage differences between large cities and the rural country are due to unobserved differences in regional price levels. In this paper information on regional price levels for western German regions is used to assess this wage differential. Since for many regions price information is not available. Multiple Imputation is used to generate completed data sets. It can be shown that this strategy is more reliable than simply using predictions of regression analysis. The results obtained show that the agglomeration wage differential in Germany is smaller than in the US, and that only a minor part of it can be explained by differences in prices." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
wage difference; regional difference; price level; town; rural area; old federal states; Federal Republic of Germany
Classification
Income Policy, Property Policy, Wage Policy
Method
empirical; quantitative empirical
Document language
English
Publication Year
2007
City
Nürnberg
Page/Pages
23 p.
Series
IAB Discussion Paper: Beiträge zum wissenschaftlichen Dialog aus dem Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, 15/2007
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31904
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
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