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agglomeration economies. This paper provides a microeconomically founded model of vertical city differentiation in which the latter … two mechanisms (`agglomeration' and `selection') operate simultaneously. Our model is both rich and tractable enough to …
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sectors and regions creates a tendency for urban agglomeration. Demand from rural areas favours urban dispersion. European … urbanisation took place mainly in the XIX Century, with higher costs of spatial interaction, weaker economics of scale, and less …
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There is a substantial empirical literature quantifying the positive relationship between city size and productivity. The paper draws out the implications of this productivity relationship for evaluations of urban transport improvements. A theoretical model is developed and used to derive a...
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cluster together, turning location into a self-reinforcing process. However, agglomeration raises the price of immobile local …
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When firms cluster in the same local labor market, they face a trade-off between the benefits of labor pooling (i.e., access to workers whose knowledge help reduce costs) and the costs of labor poaching (i.e., loss of some key workers to competition and the indirect effect of a higher wage bill...
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agglomeration. However, the nature of those benefits remains unclear. In this paper we take advantage of a new dataset to quantify …
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the agglomeration of increasing returns activities. When workers migrate towards locations with more firms and higher real … wages, this intensifies agglomeration. When instead workers do not move across regions, further reductions in transport …
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the quality of the match between job and worker, trade liberalization may lead to industrial agglomeration and inter …-industry trade. The agglomeration force is the improvement in the quality of matches when firms recruit from a bigger pool of labor …. The forces against agglomeration are the existence of trade costs and monopoly power in the labor market. We show that …
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While transport costs have fallen, the empirical evidence also points at rising total trade costs. In a model of industry location with endogenous transaction costs, we show how and under which conditions a decline in transport costs can lead to an increase in the total cost of trade.
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hub- and-spoke arrangement favours location in the hub, with better reciprocal access induces agglomeration in the hub and …
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