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Trionfetti, Federico - HAL - 2012

This paper studies the consequences of debt policies on the spatial distribution of output in a two-country model. It departs from the usual set up of local public finance by relaxing the assumption of balanced budget. Further, to single out the pure effect of debt the paper eliminates effects...

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Enlargement and the EU Periphery: The Impact of Changing Market Potential

Brülhart, Marius; Crozet, Matthieu; Koenig, Pamina - HAL - 2004

We study the impact of changing relative market access in an enlarged EU on the economies of incumbent Objective 1 regions. First, we track the impact of external opening on internal spatial configurations in a three-region economic geography model. External opening gives rise to potentially...

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Modelling Migration and Regional Labour Markets: An Application of the New Economic Geography Model RHOMOLO

Brandsma, Andries; d’Artis Kancs; Persyn, Damiaan - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2013

The present paper describes the modelling approach of regional labour markets taken in the newly developed dynamic spatial general equilibrium model RHOMOLO, where the labour market equilibrium is determined by ?rms’ labour demand, a wage-curve with unemployment, and inter-regional labour...

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Modelling regional labour market dynamics. Participation, employment and migration decisions in a spatial CGE model for the EU

Persyn, Damiaan; d'Artis Kancs; Torfs, Wouter - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014

This paper outlines how regional labour market adjustments to macro-economic and policy shocks are modelled in RHOMOLO through participation, employment and migration decisions of workers. RHOMOLO, being a multi-sectoral, inter-regional general equilibrium model, is complex both in terms of its...

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Modelling of Agglomeration and Dispersion in RHOMOLO

Comite, Francesco Di; d’Artis Kancs - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014

The dynamic spatial general equilibrium model RHOMOLO with endogenous firm location incorporates multiple sources of agglomeration and dispersion. Agglomeration is driven mainly by increasing returns to scale and localised externalities; dispersion by costly trade and imperfect competition. In...

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A small model of equilibrium mechanisms in a city

Palma, André De; Proost, Stef; Loo, Saskia Van Der - HAL - 2013

We use a simple economy with two interconnected geographical zones. Individuals can live and work in one of the two zones or can commute between them. This model is used to explore the dynamics of housing and work decisions after a permanent shock in labour demand occurred in one of the two...

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Where in cities do "rich" and "poor" people live? The urban economics model revisited

Lemoy, Rémi; Raux, Charles; Jensen, Pablo - HAL - 2013

We exploit the power of the Alonso-Mills-Muth (AMM) urban economics model and show that various utility functions and plausible conditions offer alternative explanations of households' location by income within a city. These include the existence of a "rich" center and more complex socio-spatial...

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Does Urbanization Help Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas? Evidence from Vietnam

Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; … - HAL - 2014

Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression andpanel data from household … surveys, we estimate the effect of urbanization on welfare andpoverty of rural households in Vietnam. We find that … urbanization tends to increaselandlessness of rural households and to reduce their farm income. However, urbanizationhelps rural …

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Effects of urbanization on economic growth and human capital formation in Africa

Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; … - HAL - 2014

The objective of this paper is to investigate the impacts of urbanization on human capital andeconomic growth in Africa …. It seeks to contribute to the urbanization-growth debate byinvestigating how urbanization is linked to human capital … accumulation and economic growth.More precisely, compared to previous studies on the urbanization-growth nexus, we (i …

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Transportation Infrastructure and Development in Ghana

Jedwab, Rémi; Moradi, Alexandre - HAL - 2011

. This attracted migrants to producing areas and the economic surplus drove urbanization. Using data at a very fine spatial … show that the economic boom in cocoa-producing areas was associated with demographic growth and urbanization. We _nd no …

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