global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and …

perform. Globalisation occurs in two distinct phases, leading to the agglomeration of an industry (manufacturing) in the first …. Because of agglomeration effects, the increase in relative endowment of a factor may increase its relative wages, leading to …

cluster together, turning location into a self-reinforcing process. However, agglomeration raises the price of immobile local …

When firms cluster in the same local labor market, they face a trade-off between the benefits of labor pooling (i …

agglomeration. However, the nature of those benefits remains unclear. In this paper we take advantage of a new dataset to quantify …

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 …

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 …