On track towards improved regional development? – Impacts of the Svealand rail line on labour earnings in the Mälaren region

This paper studies the impacts on productivity following an investment in regional high-speed rail in the Mälaren region in Sweden. It uses wage earnings as a measure of productivity and proposes to capture agglomeration effects by measuring changes in effective labour force density induced by the t...

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Main Authors: Axel Merkel, Johan Holmgren
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: TU Delft OPEN Publishing 2020-03-01
Series:European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research
Online Access:https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/ejtir/article/view/3878