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specialisation and diversity? To what extent does the structure of cities, and the activities of the firms and people in them, change …
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Social identity is increasingly accepted as a key concept underpin- ning the endogeneity of economic behaviour and preferences. This feature is especially important in explaining redistribution preferences as well as attitudes towards redistribution and pro-social behaviour. This paper carries...
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A simple model of process innovation is proposed, where firms learn about their ideal production process by making prototypes. We build around this a dynamic general equilibrium model, and derive conditions under which diversified and specialised cities coexist. New products are developed in...
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This paper reviews a growing literature investigating how ‘immigrant’ diversity relates to urban economic performance …
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insufficient attention to diversity of workers (Rank, 2009). As invisible minorities, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT …
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) goods. We show that taste conflict first dilutes but later reinforces class interests. When the degree of taste diversity is …. As taste diversity increases in society, the set of equilibrium policies becomes more and more tilted towards special … interest groups and against general redistribution. As diversity increases further, however, only general redistribution …
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