THE EFFECTS OF AGGLOMERATION ON WAGES: EVIDENCE FROM THE MICRO‐LEVEL
通过估计个人工资方程，检验新经济地理学和城市经济学两种集聚理论，发现英国男性工资不受这两种机制影响，但女性工资存在显著关联，并探讨了性别差异的原因。
ABSTRACT This paper estimates individual wage equations to test two rival non‐nested theories of economic agglomeration, namely New Economic Geography (NEG), as represented by the NEG wage equation and urban economic (UE) theory, in which wages relate to employment density. In the U.K. context, we find that for male respondents, there is no significant evidence that wage levels are an outcome of the mechanisms suggested by NEG or UE theory, but this is not the case for female respondents. We speculate on the reasons for the gender difference.