caa a22 4500 606165479 CHVBK 20210128100653.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00168-015-0700-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00168-015-0700-2 Home market effect, spatial wages disparity: an empirical reinvestigation of China [Elektronische Daten] [Jian Wang, Junqian Xu] It is argued that the size of a region affects the spatial configuration of economic activities, known as the home market effect (HME). Concerning the definition of HME, it can be interpreted from different aspects, but most empirical studies testing HME focus mainly on investigating firm share and exports. This paper empirically investigates the HME in terms of wages in the case of China by using panel data for the period 1980-2012. We find that the wages in coastal regions are higher than those in the interior, due to the size differences between regions. Additionally, regional inequality in wages between the coastal and interior regions evolves in an inverted U-shaped curve during periods of regional integration. The evolution of the space-economy in China during the past three decades supports the inverted U-shaped pattern predicted by the theoretical models of spatial economics. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 Wang Jian Department of Economics, SHU-UTS SILC Business School, Shanghai University, 20 Chengzhong Road, JiaDing District, 201800, Shanghai, China aut Xu Junqian Business School, Jiangnan University, Lihu Avenue 1800, 214122, Wuxi, China aut The Annals of Regional Science Springer Berlin Heidelberg 55/2-3(2015-12-01), 313-333 0570-1864 55:2-3<313 2015 55 168 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-015-0700-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-015-0700-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wang Jian Department of Economics, SHU-UTS SILC Business School, Shanghai University, 20 Chengzhong Road, JiaDing District, 201800, Shanghai, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Xu Junqian Business School, Jiangnan University, Lihu Avenue 1800, 214122, Wuxi, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Annals of Regional Science Springer Berlin Heidelberg 55/2-3(2015-12-01), 313-333 0570-1864 55:2-3<313 2015 55 168