TI 2004-054/3
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper
Spatial Heterogeneity and the Wage
Curve Revisited
Simonetta Longhi1
Peter Nijkamp1
Jacques Poot2
12 Faculty
Institute,
of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Tinbergen
2 University
of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
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