The Spatial Distribution of Wages: Estimating the Helpman‐Hanson Model for Germany
利用德国地区数据估计Helpman-Hanson新经济地理模型的结构参数，该模型考虑了经济活动集聚对当地非贸易服务价格的影响，并分析了放弃实际工资均等化假设后工资空间结构的含义。
Abstract. Using German district data we estimate the structural parameters of a new economic geography model as developed by Helpman (1998) and Hanson (1998 , 2001a ). The advantage of the Helpman‐Hanson model is that it incorporates the fact that agglomeration of economic activity increases the prices of local (nontradable) services, like housing. This model thereby provides an intuitively appealing spreading force that allows for less extreme agglomeration patterns than predicted by the bulk of new economic geography models. Generalizing the Helpman‐Hanson model, we also analyze the implications for the spatial distribution of wages once the assumption of real wage equalization is dropped. If we no longer assume real wage equalization we find support for a spatial wage structure as well as for the relevance of the structural parameters of the theoretical model.