Manufacturing Wages in the Enlarged EU : The Role of Neighbour-Country Effects

In this paper a New Economic Geography type wage equation is estimated for the EU-25. The determinants of manufacturing wages are shown to be sector-specific and the role of geography is limited. As a consequence, we show that the improvement of the EU's internal market and the evolution of European geography are likely to favour larger EU members and challenge smaller ones

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Marques, Helena ; Metcalf, Hugh
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	EU-Mitgliedschaft \| EU membership \| EU-Staaten \| EU countries \| Industrie \| Manufacturing industries \| Sektorale Lohnstruktur \| Interindustry wage structure \| Neue ökonomische Geographie \| New economic geography

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (17 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: Manchester School, Vol. 77, Issue 1, pp. 65-81, January 2009
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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