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The spatial sorting and matching of skills and firms

MION, Giordano; NATICCHIONI, Paolo - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2006

attributed to aggregate proxies of agglomeration externalities. Our data further support the assortative matching hypothesis …, that is'good' workers match on the labor market with 'good' firms, and we further show that assortative matching is not … driven by a co-location of workers and firms of similar quality. Finally, we point out that this assortative matching is …

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Sustainable migration policies

PICARD, Pierre M.; WORRALL, Tim - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2011

This paper considers whether countries might mutually agree a policy of open borders, allowing free movement of workers across countries. For the countries to agree, the short run costs must outweighed by the long term benefits that result from better labor market flexibility and income...

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Preferential trade agreements harm third countries

MOSSAY, Pascal; TABUCHI, Takatoshi - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2012

In this paper, we study market liberalization in an imperfectly competitive environment in the presence of price effects. For this purpose, we build a three-country model of international trade under monopolistic competition with endogenous prices and wages. The neighboring effect translates how...

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The principle of mutual recognition - A source of divergence ?

TOULEMONDE, Eric - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2009

Governments set numerous norms to protect consumers. Two countries may achieve the same level of protection of their consumers through different specifications. The adaptation costs induced by these differences create barriers to trade. The principle of mutual recognition addresses the problem...

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Globalization and the evolution of the supply chain: who gains and who loses ?

FUJITA, Masahisa; THISSE, Jacques - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2003

This paper focuses on two distint facets of globalization: the decrease in the trade costs of goods and the decline of communication costs between headquarters and production facilities within firms. When the unskilled have about the same wage in the two regions, the decrease of these costs...

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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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Economic geography and endogenous determination of transportation technology

TAKAHASHI, Takaaki - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2005

This paper studies the interdependence of economic geography and transportation technology. A two-region model is used to obtain the conditions for the modern transportation technology to be adopted in an economy. In particular, the impact of economic geography upon the adoption of the modern...

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Economic geography and the role of profits

PICARD, Pierre; THISSE, Jacques-François; TOULEMONDE, Eric - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2002

In modern economies, the amount of profits distributed to shareholders is far from being negligible. We show that the way they are distributed among agents matters for the space-economy. For example, the existence of mobile rentiers is sufficient to make the symmetric configuration unstable for...

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City size and the Henry George theorem under monopolistic competition

BEHRENS, Kristian; MURATA, Yasusada - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2007

We analyze the equilibrium and the optimal resource allocations in a monocentric city under monopolistic competition. Unlike the constant elasticity of substitution (CES) case, where the equilibrium markups are independent of the city size, we present a variable elasticity of substitution (VES)...

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On the evolution of a multi-regional system

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

We study the effects of a decrease in trade costs on the spatial distribution of industry in a multi-regional economy, when a rise in the regional population of workers generates higher urban costs. We show that high and low trade costs imply that all regions involve a positive share of the...

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