Wages and Accessibility: The Impact of Transport Infrastructure

Anna Matas; Josep Lluis Raymond; Josep Lluis Roig

doi:10.1080/00343404.2013.827336

Wages and Accessibility: The Impact of Transport Infrastructure

Anna Matas, Josep Lluis Raymond, Josep Lluis Roig

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© 2013 Regional Studies Association. Matas A., Raymond J.-L. and Roig J.-L. Wages and accessibility: the impact of transport infrastructure, Regional Studies. This paper contributes to the debate about the effect of accessibility on firms' productivity. It uses a micro-dataset that locates workplaces at the NUTS-3 level of regions. It elaborates an effective density variable using employment and interprovincial travel time data, allowing for a flexible time decay effect. The results show that there is a positive effect of accessibility on productivity, with elasticity around 0.06. Finally, by means of a simulation technique, this paper shows that the impact of road investment on productivity is higher the more developed are the regions connected.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1236-1254
Journal	Regional Studies
Volume	49
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2013.827336
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2015

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Effective density
Productivity
Transport infrastructure

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