%0 Journal Article %T Introduction to the Special Issue %A Raul Ramos %A Jordi Suri£¿ach %J Investigaciones Regionales %D 2012 %I Asociaci¨®n Espa?ola de Ciencia Regional (AECR) %X This introduction summarises the main contributions included in the special issue. These papers were discussed (among others) in the special session on Wages and Regional Labour Markets organised within the activities of the 51st Congress of the European Association of Regional Science (ERSA) and the 37th conference of the Spanish Regional Science Association held in Barcelona in August 2011. This special issue contains six of the nine papers discussed in the session, plus three additional papers clearly related to this topic that were discussed in other conference sessions or included at a later stage due to their relevance. Moreover, we also decided to include a brief discussion of each paper in order to incorporate other points of view and some additional thoughts on the topic. %K Wages %K regional labour markets %U http://www.aecr.org/images/ImatgesArticles/2012/12/Introduction_to_the_Special_Issue.pdf