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Regional and temporal dimensions of metropolitan area wage structures

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Principal components analysis is applied to occupational wage data for a sample of metropolitan areas. Indexes of wage levels and skilled/unskilled differentials are derived. Areas in the same region tend to have similar wage structures, which have changed little over twenty years. A simple regression model is reasonably successful in explaining interarea variation in the two dimensions.

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    Stephen E. Baldwin

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Baldwin, S.E. Regional and temporal dimensions of metropolitan area wage structures. Ann Reg Sci 12, 1–13 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01287490

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