Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/173756 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
NBB Working Paper No. 300
Publisher: 
National Bank of Belgium, Brussels
Abstract: 
This paper is one of the first to estimate how the region in which an establishment is located affects its productivity, wage cost and cost competitiveness (i.e. its productivity-wage gap). To do so, we use detailed linked employer-employee panel data for Belgium and rely on methodological approaches from both Hellerstein and Neumark (1995) and Bartolucci (2014) to estimate dynamic panel data models at the establishment level. Our findings show that inter-regional differences in productivity and wages are significant but vanish almost totally, both in industry and services, when controlling for a wide range of covariates, establishment fixed effects and endogeneity. Thus, our results suggest that wage cost and productivity differentials are ceteris paribus relatively well aligned across regions.
Subjects: 
Regions
productivity
labour costs
linked panel data
JEL: 
C33
J24
J31
R30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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