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| Title: | Regional earnings inequality in Great Britain: Evidence from fixed-effects regressions |
| Authors: | Dickey, Heather |
| Keywords: | Increasing regional earnings inequality
Fixed-effects earnings equations |
| Issue Date: | Nov-2004 |
| Publisher: | University of Aberdeen Business School |
| Series/Report no.: | Economics Working Paper Series
2004-14 |
| Abstract: | Earnings inequality in Great Britain has increased substantially over the last two decades at both the national and regional levels. This paper examines the determinants of regional hourly earnings over the period 1976 to 1995 by estimating regional fixed-effects earnings equations. Using panel dataset from the New Earnings Survey, individual-specific heterogeneity is controlled for, and superior estimates of the factors affecting regional earnings are obtained. Increasing returns to skill, increasing industrial differentials, and increasing premiums for older workers are found to have contributed to increasing regional earnings inequality, and consequently rising earnings inequality at the national level. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2164/18 |
| ISSN: | 0143 4543 |
| Appears in Collections: | Economics research
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