Mind the remoteness! Income disparities across Japanese prefectures

Artikel

In this paper we analyze the role played by Market access to explain income disparities among Japanese Prefectures for different periods of time. The results of the estimations suggest that 1) Market access plays an important role in the explanation of income disparities in Japan, 2) the effect of Market access is robust to the inclusion of control variables considered important in the explanation of the Japanese income disparities, 3) the estimations show a tendency for the Market access variable to lose explanatory power throughout the time. In this 10 year time span analyzed from 1996 to 2005 the decrease in explanatory power of Market access was around 15%.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Estudios de Economía ; ISSN: 0718-5286 ; Volume: 38 ; Year: 2011 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 393-417 ; Santiago de Chile: Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Economía

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; General Equilibrium and Welfare Economic Analysis of Regional Economies ; Land Use Patterns ; Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation ; Multinational Firms; International Business
• Subject: new economic geography ; market access ; income disparities ; Japanese prefectures ; Regionale Einkommensverteilung ; Räumliche Verteilung ; Markteintritt ; Teilstaat ; Japan

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): López-Rodríguez, Jesús ; Nakamura, Daisuke
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Economía
• (where): Santiago de Chile
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/146693
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET