Almeida, Edilberto Tiago de; Rocha, Roberta Moraes - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 19 (2018) 2, pp. 236-250
This is a pioneering study of Brazil of the importance of labor pooling to explain industrial agglomeration in the Northeast of Brazil, employing firm-level microdata. We applied the theoretical model proposed by Krugman (1991) (labor market pooling model) with the adaptations by Overman and...