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The Role of Migrati...
The Role of Migration in Regional Wage Convergence: Evidence from Sweden 1860–1940
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- Enflo, Kerstin (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen,Ekonomihögskolan,Department of Economic History,Lund University School of Economics and Management, LUSEM
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- Lundh, Christer (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Lund University,Lunds universitet,Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen,Ekonomihögskolan,Department of Economic History,Lund University School of Economics and Management, LUSEM,Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle, Ekonomisk historia,Department of Economy and Society, Economic History
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- Prado, Svante, 1974 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle, Ekonomisk historia,Department of Economy and Society, Economic History
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- Elsevier BV, 2014
- 2014
- English.
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In: Explorations in Economic History. - : Elsevier BV. - 0014-4983. ; 52, s. 93-110
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- Sweden experienced a decline in inter-county real wage differentials for agricultural workers between 1860 and 1940, historical evidence of early labour market integration well before widespread unionization in agriculture occurred. By means of dynamic panel data analysis, this paper examines whether internal and external migration caused real wage beta convergence across Swedish counties. To account for statistical problems such as endogeneity of migration, time-invariant county characteristics and autocorrelation in the regression model, we adjust our estimates using fixed effects, instrumental variables and GMM. The preferred model shows that both internal and external migration contributed to wage convergence before the First World War and internal migration mainly during the interwar years. The agglomeration effects of urbanization were not sufficiently pervasive to offset the labour supply effects of internal and external migration.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Ekonomisk historia (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economic History (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- wage convergence
- migration
- panel data
- Migration; Wage convergence; Labor market integration; Instrumental variables; GMM
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- art (subject category)
- ref (subject category)
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