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Relaxing Hukou: Increased labor mobility and China’s Economic Geography
Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
China’s Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing … these restrictions for China’s internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First …, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on the basis of information on 264 of China’s prefecture cities …
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A Many-Country Model of Industrialization
Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We draw attention to the role of economic geography in explaining important cross-sectional facts which are difficult to account for in existing models of industrialization. By construction, closed-economy models that stress the role of local demand in generating sufficient expenditure on...
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Spatial Disparities in Hospital Performances
Gobillon, Laurent; Milcent, Carine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Spatial disparities in mortality can result from spatial differences in patient characteristics, treatments, hospital characteristics, and local healthcare market structure. To distinguish between these explanatory factors, we estimate a fexible duration model on stays in hospital for a heart...
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The Dynamics of Local Employment in France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Magnac, Thierry; Robin, Jean-Marc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper studies the impact of local economic structure on local sectoral employment growth. Local employment growth is decomposed into ‘internal’ growth (the growth of the size of existing plants) and ‘external’ growth (the creation of new plants). Using panel data methods, we...
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Factor Price Equalization in the UK?
Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K.; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper develops a general test of factor price equalization that is robust to unobserved regional productivity differences, unobserved region-industry factor quality differences and variation in production technology across industries. We test relative factor price equalization across...
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Regional Convergence Clusters Across Europe
Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
Per capita incomes across European regions are not equal and do not stay constant; regional income distributions fluctuate over time. Such a process could have many possible limiting outcomes: complete equality (convergence), stratification, and continually increasing inequality are but three...
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Comparative Advantage and the Location of Production
Forslid, Rikard; Wooton, Ian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
We return to a familiar topic in international trade, comparative advantage, introducing it into a model of economic geography. We provide a clear counterexample to the familiar result that trade liberalization leads to increased industrial concentration. Instead, lower trade costs may lead to a...
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Economic Geography and the Fiscal Effects of Regional Integration
Ludema, Rodney D; Wooton, Ian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
In models of economic geography, plant-level scale economies and trade costs create incentives for spatial agglomeration of production into a manufacturing core and agricultural periphery, creating regional income differentials. We examine tax competition between national governments to...
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Geographic Localization of International Technology Diffusion
Keller, Wolfgang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
Convergence in per capita income across countries turns on whether technological knowledge spillovers are global or local in a large class of models. This Paper estimates the amount of spillovers from R&D expenditures in major industrialized countries on a geographic basis. A new data set is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124371
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Agglomeration and Endogenous Capital
Baldwin, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
The ‘new’ economic geography focuses on the footloose-labour and the vertically-linked industries models. Both are complex, since they feature demand-linked and cost-linked agglomeration forces. The paper presents a simpler model, where agglomeration stems from demand-linked forces arising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136511