Arbeitspapier

Increasing returns and spatial unemployment disparities

Standard models of the new trade and location theories usually assume full employment and are thus ill-equipped to study spatial unemployment differences, which in reality are more pronounced that income disparities. Regional labour market theories like the ´wage curve´-approach on the other hand can not endogenously explain the origin of regional economic disparities. We analyse regional agglomeration and regional unemployment in an unified approach by combining a wage curve with an increasing returns technology. We find that regional unemployment rates closely resemble the coreperiphery structure of regional GDP per capita. This matches the stylised facts from EU-15.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Diskussionsbeiträge ; No. 117

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Regionale Arbeitslosigkeit
Regionale Disparität
Regionale Lohnstruktur
Effizienzlohn
Regionalökonomik
Skalenertrag
Theorie
EU-Staaten

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Suedekum, Jens
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Volkswirtschaftliches Seminar
(wo)
Göttingen
(wann)
2003

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
20.09.2024, 08:21 MESZ

Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Suedekum, Jens
  • Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Volkswirtschaftliches Seminar

Entstanden

  • 2003

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