Regional earnings inequality in Great Britain: Evidence from fixed-effects regressions
| dc.contributor.author | Dickey, Heather | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2005-10-11T11:04:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2005-10-11T11:04:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004-11 | |
| dc.description.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. | en |
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| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0143 4543 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2164/18 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | University of Aberdeen Business School | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Economics Working Paper Series | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2004-14 | en |
| dc.subject | Increasing regional earnings inequality | en |
| dc.subject | Fixed-effects earnings equations | en |
| dc.title | Regional earnings inequality in Great Britain: Evidence from fixed-effects regressions | en |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en |