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Does social media or offline social cohesion overcome collective action problems more effectively when both types of networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria - a country where one in two citizens uses Facebook but also one in...
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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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workers are not able to take full advantage of the benefits from agglomeration economies. China is changing rapidly, however … institutional limitations in China against further agglomeration weaken, and that the consensus in the literature that "Chinese …
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extending models of commodity tax competition to include urban spatial structure (agglomeration) and online commerce, one can …
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We examine “agglomeration shadows” that emerge around large cities, which discourage some economic activities in nearby … areas. Identifying agglomeration shadows is complicated, however, by endogenous city formation and \wave interference" that … estimate agglomeration shadows cast on nearby areas. We find that empirically, as in the simulations, detectable agglomeration …
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. We document agglomeration of workers and firms in the targeted areas persisting well after the end of the policy. By …
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Using the German local business tax as a testing ground, we empirically investigate the impact of firm agglomeration on … measures for the communities' agglomeration characteristics. The findings indicate that urbanization and localization economies …'s potential to tax agglomeration rents depends on its firm and industry agglomeration relative to neighboring communities. To …
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(profit seeking) manufacturing firms to benefit from agglomeration economies. …
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Young highly educated workers developed in the 70 s and 80 s a preference for working in larger cities. As a consequence highly educated young workers in 1990 were over-represented in cities, in spite of the lower wage premium they earned for working in crowded metropolitan areas if compared to...
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formulate and promote policies that foster clustering of economic activity. Paradoxically, although agglomeration rents are … policy ; agglomeration …
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