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The Spatial Mismatch between Innovation and Joblessness
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2019
's most persistent pockets of joblessness. Could a more even spatial distribution of innovation reduce American joblessness …? Could Federal policies disperse innovation without significant costs? If research funding is already maximizing knowledge … production, then spatial reallocation of that funding will reduce America's overall innovation unless that reallocation comes …
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Learning in Cities
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2021
Alfred Marshall argues that industrial agglomerations exist in part because individuals can" learn skills from each other when they live and work in close proximity to one another. An" increasing amount of evidence suggests that the informational role of cities is a primary reason for" their...
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Geographic Concentration as a Dynamic Process
Dumais, Guy; Ellison, Glenn; Glaeser, Edward L. - 2021
The degree of geographic concentration of individual manufacturing industries in the U.S. has declined only slightly in the last twenty years. At the same time, new plant births, plant expansions, contractions and closures have shifted large quantities of employment across plants, firms, and...
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