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This paper tests the robustness of estimates of market access impact on regional variability in human capital, as previously derived in the NEG literature. Our hypothesis is that these estimates of the coefficient of market access, in fact, capture the effects of regional differences in the industrial mix and the spatial dependence in the distribution of human capital. Results for the Spanish provinces indicate that the estimated impact of market access vanishes and becomes non-significant once these two elements are included in the empirical analysis.

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Paper provided by University of Barcelona, Research Institute of Applied Economics in its series IREA Working Papers with number 201102.

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Length: 38 pages
Date of creation: Feb 2011
Date of revision: Feb 2011
Handle: RePEc:ira:wpaper:201102

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Keywords: human capital; geography; market access; spatial dependence. JEL classification:C21; I21; R12;

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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

• NEP-ALL-2011-04-09 (All new papers)
• NEP-GEO-2011-04-09 (Economic Geography)
• NEP-HRM-2011-04-09 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
• NEP-URE-2011-04-09 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)

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