Agglomeration Economies, Division of Labour and the Urban Land-Rent Escalation: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Urbanisation.
A general equilibrium model with increasing return to labour specialisation and economies of transaction agglomeration is developed to address the residential land-rent escalation associated with the urbanisation process, which is in turn endogenised as a result of the evolution of the division of labour. The interplay among the geographical pattern of transactions, trading efficiency and the network size of the division of labour plays a crucial role in our story of urbanisation. We show that: as transaction conditions are improved, the equilibrium level of division of labour and individuals specialisation levels increase; the urban land-rent increases absolutely as well as relative to that in the rural area, the relative per capita lot size of residence in the urban and rural areas decreases; the diversity of occupations in the urban area and the population share of urban residents increase; and the productivity of all goods and per capita real income increase. Copyright 2002 by Blackwell Publishers Ltd/University of Adelaide and Flinders University of South Australia
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2002
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Authors: | Sun, Guang-Zhen ; Yang, Xiaokai |
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Australian Economic Papers. - Wiley Blackwell. - Vol. 41.2002, 2, p. 164-84
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Wiley Blackwell |
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