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The Comparative Advantage of Cities
Davis, Donald R.; Dingel, Jonathan I. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
What determines the distributions of skills, occupations, and industries across cities? We develop a theory to jointly address these fundamental questions about the spatial organization of economies. Our model incorporates a system of cities, their internal urban structures, and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950777
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Micro-Foundations of Urban Agglomeration Economies
Puga, Diego; Duranton, Giles - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
This handbook chapter studies the theoretical micro-foundations of urban agglomeration economies. We distinguish three … precise characterisation of some of the main theoretical underpinnings of urban agglomeration economies, to discuss modelling … issues that arise when working with these tools, and to compare different sources of agglomeration economies in terms of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085227
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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?
Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227923
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Why Has House Price Dispersion Gone Up?
Van Nieuwerburgh, Stijn; Weill, Pierre-Olivier - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
We investigate the 30 year increase in the level and dispersion of house prices across U.S. metropolitan areas in a calibrated dynamic general equilibrium island model. The model is based on two main assumptions: households flow in and out metropolitan areas in response to local wage shocks, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778399
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Trade and the Topography of the Spatial Economy
Allen, Treb; Arkolakis, Costas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
the existence, uniqueness, and stability of a spatial economic equilibrium and derive a simple set of differential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821985
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Urban Accounting and Welfare
Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Desmet, Klaus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
larger cities, but also to greater frictions through congestion and other negative effects of agglomeration. Using data on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764667
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Goods Prices and Availability in Cities
Weinstein, David; Handbury, Jessie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper uses detailed barcode data on purchase transactions by households in 49 U.S. cities to overcome a large number of problems that have plagued spatial price index measurement. We identify two important sources of bias. Heterogeneity bias arises from comparing different goods in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021953
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The Impact of Regional and Sectoral Productivity Changes on the U.S. Economy
Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Sarte, Pierre Daniel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the impact of intersectoral and interregional trade linkages in propagating disaggregated productivity changes to the rest of the economy. Using regional and industry data we obtain the aggregate, regional and sectoral elasticities of measured TFP, GDP, and employment to regional and...
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Rethinking the Gains from Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the U.S.
Peri, Giovanni; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Recent influential empirical work has emphasized the negative impact immigrants have on the wages of U.S.-born workers, arguing that immigration harms less educated American workers in particular and all U.S.-born workers in general. Because U.S. and foreign born workers belong to different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778650
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Task Specialization, Comparative Advantages, and the Effects of Immigration on Wages
Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. Large inflows of less-educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups compete for similar jobs. In a simple model exploiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575721