Inter‐ and intraregional inequality in a spatial economy.
In this paper, we develop a three‐region economic geography model with workers of heterogeneous skills and mobility rates to consider how first‐nature, regional differences impact both inter‐ and intraregional inequality. In our model, the skill premium within a region summarizes both the degree of...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Regional Science Vol. 63; no. 4; pp. 981 - 1001 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2023
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