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Government-Directed Urban Growth, Firm Entry, and Industrial Land Prices in Chinese Cities
Brueckner, Jan K.; Liu, Wenhua; Xiao, Wei; Zhang, Junfu - 2022
We examine the effect of a large-scale administrative reorganization in China, where counties are annexed into cities to accommodate urban growth. We present a simple model to illustrate how this annexation may affect firm entry decisions and in turn land market outcomes. Using nationwide data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290091
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Government-Directed Urban Growth, Firm Entry, and Industrial Land Prices in Chinese Cities
Brueckner, Jan K.; Liu, Wenhua; Xiao, Wei; Zhang, Junfu - 2023
We examine the effect of a large-scale administrative reorganization in China, where counties are annexed into cities to accommodate urban growth. We present a simple model to illustrate how this annexation may affect firm entry decisions and in turn land market outcomes. Using nationwide data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014263917
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Biodiversity and geography
Rauscher, Michael; Barbier, Edward B. - 2007
The paper combines an economic-geography model of agglomeration and periphery with a model of species diversity and looks at optimal policies of biodiversity conservation. The subject of the paper is natural biodiversity, which is inevitably impaired by anthropogenic impact. Thus, the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264149
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Work-from-Home and Cities: An Elementary Spatial Model
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2024
This paper analyzes the urban impacts of hybrid WFH in the simplest possible model, relying on Leontief utility and production functions and other simplifying assumptions. The analysis shows that introduction of WFH raises both the wage and land consumption of households while shrinking the size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014574308
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Local Employment Multiplier: Evidence from Relocation of Public-Sector Entities in South Korea
Lee, Hwanoong; Ko, Changsu; Kim, Wookun - 2023
We exploit a series of public-sector entity relocations in South Korea as an exogenous source of variation in public sector employment to estimate the local employment multiplier. We find that the introduction of one public sector employment position increases private sector employment by one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469797
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Policy-induced internal migration : an empirical investigation of the Canadian case
Day, Kathleen M.; Winer, Stanley L. - 2005
We investigate the influence of public policy on interprovincial migration in Canada using new aggregated migration data for 1974-1996, the longest period studied so far. We consider the consequences of regional variation in a variety of policies, and also investigate the effects of certain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261376
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Workforce Location and Equilibrium Unemployment in a Duocentric Economy with Matching Frictions
Lehmann, Etienne; Montero Ledezma, Paola L.; Van der … - 2015
workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and search-matching frictions to deal with the spatial mismatch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388178
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Do Commuting Subsidies Drive Workers to Better Firms?
Agrawal, David R.; Jahn, Elke J.; Janeba, Eckhard - 2024
An unappreciated potential benefit of commuting subsidies is that they can expand the choice set of feasible job … opportunities in a way that facilitates a better job match quality. Variations in wages and initial commuting distances, combined … with major reforms of the commuting subsidy formula in Germany, generate worker-specific variation in commuting subsidy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534361
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On the Road (Again): Commuting and Local Employment Elasticities in Germany
Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael - 2021
. First, we explore the role of commuting for local labor markets and their capacity to absorb productivity shocks. Second, we … address the role of housing markets for quantitative analyses. Germany is an exciting laboratory because commuting across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657896
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The Isolated States of America: Home State Bias and the Impact of State Borders on Mobility
Wilson, Riley - 2023
I document a new fact about mobility within the United States. County-to-county migration and commuting drop discretely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469830