Economic geography and wages in Brazil: Evidence from micro-data

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fally, Thibault; Paillacar, Rodrigo; Terra, Cristina
• 署名单位: heSam Universite; Universite Pantheon-Sorbonne; Paris School of Economics; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2009.07.005
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 155-168
• 关键词: Economic geography; Market potential; Regional disparities; BRAZIL; Wage equation

摘要

This paper estimates the impact of market and supplier access on wage disparities across Brazilian states, incorporating the control for individual characteristics into the new economic geography methodology. We estimate market and supplier access disaggregated by industry, and we compute access to local, national and international markets separately. We find a strong correlation between market access and wage differentials, even after controlling for individual characteristics, market access level (international, national or local), and using instrumental variables. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.