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Agricultural sector and industrial agglomeration

PICARD, Pierre; ZENG, Dao-Zhi - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2003

We investigate an economic geography model in which agricultural goods are costly to transport and in which manufactures hire labor from the local agricultural sector as unskilled labor. We show that agricultural transport costs and local-unskilled labor requirements in firms act as a dispersion...

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Winners and losers among a refugee-hosting population

MAYSTADT, Jean-François; WERWIMP, Philip - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2009

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Taste heterogeneity, labor mobility and economic geography

TABUCHI, Takatoshi; THISSE, Jacques-François - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2001

likely to involve too much agglomeration compared to the former. …

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Geographic concentration and establishment scale: can panel data tell us more ?

BARRIOS, Salvador; BERTINELLI, Luisito; STROBL, Eric - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2003

In a recent study, Holmes and Stevens (2002) identify for the first time a positive relationship that exists between establishment scale and local industry concentration using a large cross-sectional plant level data set for the US. Using an exhaustive plant level panel data set for Irish...

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Firms’ location Under taste and demand heterogeneity

Okubo, Toshihiro; Picard, Pierre M. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2008

heterogeneity smooths the agglomeration patterns but that it should be considered neither as a dispersion force nor as an … agglomeration force. Indeed, the introduction of taste heterogeneity makes an initially dispersed economy less dispersed and an …

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Natural agglomeration

PICARD, Pierre; TABUCHI, Takatoshi - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2003

cost functions, whereas agglomeration in 1 or 2 atomic cities is stable for any economic parameters given regular transport …

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Regional specialization, urban hierarchy, and commuting costs

TABUCHI, Takatoshi; THISSE, Jacques-François - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2003

We consider an economic geography model of a new genre: all firms and workers are mobile and their agglomeration within …

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The dynamics of agglomeration : evidence from Ireland and Portugal

BARRIOS, Salvador; BERTINELLI, Luisito; STROBL, Eric; … - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2004

This paper analyses and compares the dynamics of agglomeration in Portuguese and Irish manufacturing industries between … agglomeration in both countries. When the aggregate concentration changes are decomposed into portions attributable to the different … into the early stages of the life cycle, whereas deaths have acted to reinforce agglomeration in both countries …

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A simple model of economic geography à la Helpman-Tabuchi

MURATA, Yasudada; THISSE, Jacques-François - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2005

agglomeration of economic activities. …

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Population growth and manufacturing real wages in 18th century England: a spatial perspective

BEHRENS, Kristian - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2004

spatial structure of the economy is fixed, they actually rise in the long-run when factors are mobile. Agglomeration may hence …

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