Gibbons, Steve; Overman, Henry G.; Pelkonen, Panu - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2010
This paper investigates wage disparities across sub-national labour markets in Britain using a newly available … microdata set. The findings show that wage disparity across areas is very persistent over time. While area effects play a role … in this wage disparity, most of it is due to individual characteristics (sorting). Area effects contribute a very small …