Are There Increasing Returns to Local Concentration of Skills? Evidence on Wages and Returns to Education in Transition
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In this paper I use extensive spatial variation in end-of-communism local skill endowment to test for the presence of human capital spillovers and to understand the regional variation in returns to education in a transition country — the Czech Republic. The evidence is consistent with a tendency of skill-intensive production to locate in areas relatively abundant in skills, but I find no evidence for “increasing returns” from local concentration of human capital. JEL classification: J31, P23.
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