Related versus unrelated variety and per employee income regional disparities: A case of Polish regions

Miscellanea Geographica

Volume 26 (2022): Issue 4 (October 2022)

By:

Andrzej Cieślik

and Tomasz Misiak

Open Access

|Oct 2022

Figures & Tables

Average values of per employee income in thousands of PLN in Polish regions in years 2003–2018Source: own calculation based on Statistics Poland data

Maps of average RV and UV in Polish regions in years 2003–2019Source: own calculations based on Statistics Poland data

Theil index trajectories for Poland – selected simulation variantsSource: own calculation based on Statistics Poland data

Correlation matrix and descriptive statistics

Mean	SD	Max	Min		lny_it	lnk_it	RV_it	UV_it	Urban_it	Open_it
4.70	0.20	5.21	4.18	lny_it	1.00
5.36	0.20	5.82	4.95	lnk_it	0.86^***	1.00
1.01	0.23	1.52	0.67	RV_it	0.60^***	0.38^***	1.00
1.58	0.01	1.58	1.53	UV_it	−0.29^***	−0.28^***	−0.19^***	1.00
0.59	0.09	0.40	0.79	Urban_it	0.60^***	0.43^***	0.63^***	−0.01	1.00
0.58	0.28	1.58	0.12	Open_it	0.58^***	0.37^***	0.39^***	−0.01	0.48^***	1.00

Estimation results – Dependent variable: lnyit

	*Poland – all regions*			*Western Poland 11 regions*
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(1)	(2)	(3)
*lny*_it-1	0.7623^*** (0.0669)	0.7187^*** (0.0603)	0.7191^*** (0.0579)	0.6802^*** (0.0965)	0.7189^*** (0.1017)	0.7008^*** (0.1216)
*lnk*_it	0.1487^*** (0.0374)	0.1528^*** (0.0375)	0.1497^*** (0.0361)	0.1783^** (0.0673)	0.1509^* (0.0728)	0.1512^* (0.0746)
*Urban*	0.0891^** (0.0405)	0.1554^*** (0.0423)	0.1001^** (0.0460)	0.0132 (0.0458)	0.1000 (0.0934)	0.0069 (0.0442)
RV_it	0.04625^** (0.0203)	-	0.0436^* (0.0231)	0.0558^** (0.0239)	-	0.0518^* (0.0284)
UV_it	-	−0.6956^** (0.3237)	−0.5499^* (0.3141)	-	−0.9337^* (0.4366)	−0.8277^* (0.4044)
*open*_it	0.0330^* (0.0183)	0.0415^* (0.0209)	0.0375^** (0.0175)	0.0215 (0.0230)	0.0101 (0.0184)	0.0169 (0.0237)
*Const.*	0.3650^** (0.1279)	1.5063^** (0.5424)	1.2822^** (0.5013)	0.5043^** (0.1484)	1.9528^** (0.8433)	1.8678^** (0.7745)
*AR(1) test*	−2.75 [0.006]	−2.73 [0.006]	−2.75 [0.006]	−2.42 [0.016]	−2.33 [0.020]	−2.40 [0.016]
*AR(2) test*	−1.00 [0.316]	−0.94 [0.349]	−0.99 [0.321]	−1.07 [0.284]	−0.99 [0.320]	−1.05 [0.293]
*Hansen test*	0.04 [0.839]	0.03 [0.869]	0.04 [0.843]	0.27 [0.605]	1.55 [0.213]	1.70 [0.192]
*F test*	641.22 [0.000]	713.13 [0.000]	888.46 [0.000]	770.72 [0.000]	828.53 [0.000]	520.39 [0.000]
*Number of observations*	240	240	240	165	165	165
*Number of instruments*	7	7	8	7	7	8

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2022-0017 | Journal eISSN: 2084-6118 | Journal ISSN: 0867-6046

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Language: English

Page range: 178 - 184

Submitted on: Jan 25, 2021

Accepted on: Oct 9, 2022

Published on: Oct 31, 2022

Published by: University of Warsaw

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 4 times per year

Keywords:

Related variety,

unrelated variety,

knowledge spillovers,

per employee income,

Related subjects:

Geosciences, other

© 2022 Andrzej Cieślik, Tomasz Misiak, published by University of Warsaw
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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