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Area disparities in Britain: understanding the contribution of people vs. place through variance decompositions

Gibbons, Stephen ORCID: 0000-0002-2871-8562, Overman, Henry G. ORCID: 0000-0002-3525-7629 and Pelkonen, Panu (2013) Area disparities in Britain: understanding the contribution of people vs. place through variance decompositions. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 76 (5). pp. 745-763. ISSN 0305-9049

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Identification Number: 10.1111/obes.12043

Abstract

This article considers methods for decomposing wage variation into individual and group specific components. We discuss the merits of these methods, which are applicable to variance decomposition problems generally. The relative magnitudes of the measures depend on the underlying variances and covariances, and we discuss how to interpret them, and how they might relate to structural parameters of interest. We show that a clear-cut division of variation into area and individual components is impossible. An empirical application to the British labour market demonstrates that labour market area effects contribute very little to the overall variation of wages in Britain.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(IS...
Additional Information: © 2013 The Authors
Divisions: Geography & Environment
Spatial Economics Research Centre
Centre for Economic Performance
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Date Deposited: 05 Nov 2013 17:11
Last Modified: 04 Dec 2024 17:42
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/54103

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