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Francois, Joseph F.; Nelson, Douglas - Tinbergen Instituut - 1998

Division of labor models have become a standard analytical tool, along withcompetitive general equilibrium models (Ricardian, HOS, Ricardo-Viner), in public finance, trade, growth, development, and macroeconomics. Yet unlike the earlier models, specialization models lack a canonical...

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Socio-cultural Diversity and Urban Buzz

Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

Cities have become playing grounds for competitive behaviour and rapid economic dynamics. But in many cities (or urban agglomerations) economic growth is mainly manifested in specific geographic areas, where creative people and innovative entrepreneurs are located. This paper offers first the...

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Agglomeration, Innovation and Regional Development: Theoretical Perspectives and Meta-Analysis

Groot, Henri L.F. de; Poot, Jacques; Smit, Martijn J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

-connected knowledge-driven economy, the relevance of agglomeration forces that rely on proximity continues to increase, paradoxically …

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Firm Formation and Agglomeration under Monopolistic Competition

Brunow, Stephan; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

In the presence of agglomeration economies one might expect a relocation and concentration of industries. Then firm … agglomeration economies founded on microeconomic analysis based on households' and firms' maximization behavior, namely the real … market potential. Besides agglomeration forces, dispersion and human capital effects can be separated and explicitly …

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The Educational Bias in Commuting Patterns: Micro-Evidence for the Netherlands

Groot, Stefan P.T.; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Veneri, Paolo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This study analyses the relation between education and commuting behaviour of Dutch workers. Results show that, ceteris paribus, higher educated workers commute further, both in terms of distance and time. In addition, higher educated workers are more frequent users of public transport and of...

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Towards a General Theory of Mixed Zones: The Role of Congestion

Kantor, Yuval; Rietveld, Piet; Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

agglomeration externalities. We extend this model by introducing a traffic congestion externality. We show that congestion induces a … agglomeration gains. …

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Estimating the Skill Bias in Agglomeration Externalities and Social Returns to Education: Evidence from Dutch Matched Worker-Firm Micro-data

Groot, Stefan P.T.; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

relationship between agglomeration externalities and the level of education. While the positive relationship between economic …

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Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity

Teulings, Coen; Ossokina, Ioulia; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial …

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A Multi-Actor Multi-Criteria Analysis of the Performance of Global Cities

Kourtit, Karima; Macharis, Cathy; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

world-wide urbanisation trend calls for a repositioning of cities, especially the large cities with a global impact. These …

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Top Incomes, Rising Inequality, and Welfare

Lansing, Kevin J.; Markiewicz, Agnieszka - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This paper develops a general-equilibrium model of skill-biased technological change that approximates the observed shifts in the shares of wage and non-wage income going to the top decile of U.S. households since 1980. Under realistic assumptions, we find that all agents can benefit from the...

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