Unequal Britain: how real are regional disparities?

(2011) Unequal Britain: how real are regional disparities? Centrepiece, 17 (1). pp. 23-25. ISSN 1362-3761

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Average earnings vary widely across the regions of Britain, a fact that has prompted many decades of policies aimed at reducing regional disparities. But as Henry Overman and Steve Gibbons demonstrate, such variation reveals little, especially if we ignore regional differences in the cost of living and availability of local amenities.

Item Type	Article
Keywords	wage,disparities,labour,Britain,spatial equilibrium,amenity value,housing market
Departments	Geography and Environment Urban and Spatial Programme Centre for Economic Performance
DOI	CEPCP353
Date Deposited	06 Jul 2012 13:41
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/44651

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