Second nature geography and regional income disparities in Colombia
In this paper, we derive and estimate a New Economic Geography model for the Colombian departments. We first derive an econometric specification relating wages to a distance weighted sum of the volumes of economic activities of the surrounding locations. Them, we test our econometric specification w...
- Autores:
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López-Rodríguez, Jesús
Acevedo Villalobos, María Cecilia
- Tipo de recurso:
- Work document
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2008
- Institución:
- Universidad de los Andes
- Repositorio:
- Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/8061
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/1992/8061
- Palabra clave:
- New economic geography
Spatial structure of wages
Market access
Geografía económica - Colombia
Salarios - Aspectos económicos - Colombia
Mercado laboral - Colombia
R11, R12, R13, R14, F12, F23
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
| Summary: | In this paper, we derive and estimate a New Economic Geography model for the Colombian departments. We first derive an econometric specification relating wages to a distance weighted sum of the volumes of economic activities of the surrounding locations. Them, we test our econometric specification with data for Colombian departments in the period 1975-2000. The empirical results confirm the theoretical predictions of our model, showing that second nature geography factors (access to consumer markets) are a key variable in explaining the spatial distribution of wages in Colombia. |
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