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Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, Pieter - 2002

We develop a model of an economy with several regions, which differ in scale. Within each region, workers have to search for a job-type that matches their skill. They face a trade-off between match quality and the cost of extended search. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is...

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Search and the city

Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, P. A. - 2002

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Externalities in urban sustainability

Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2000

This paper studies urban sustainability from the perspective ofexternalities. We develop a general spatialequilibrium model of a monocentric city, in which two types ofexternalities occur. On the one hand, pollution inthe industrial centre leads to a spatially differentiateddeterioration of the...

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The health penalty of China's rapid urbanization

Van de Poel, Ellen; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2009

Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is … China’s unprecedented urbanization. We construct an index of urbanicity from a broad set of community characteristics and … define urbanization in terms of movements across the distribution of this index. We use difference-in-differences estimators …

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What explains the rural-urban gap in infant mortality : household or community characteristics?

Van de Poel, Ellen; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2007

The rural-urban gap in infant mortality rates is explained using a new decomposition method that permits identification of the ontribution of unobserved heterogeneity at the household and the community level. Using Demographic and Health Survey data for six Francophone countries in Western...

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Unravelling urban advantages : a meta-analysis of agglomeration economies

Donovan, Stuart; Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L. F. de; … - 2021

A large body of literature considers the productive advantages of cities, or "agglomeration economies". Most empirical studies report positive agglomeration economies, although large variation exists in the magnitude of estimates. We use a meta-analysis to explore this variation, drawing on...

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The spatial distribution of economic activities in Italy

Dominicis, Laura de; Arbia, Giuseppe; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2007

Existing indices measuring the spatial distribution of economic activity such as the Krugman Specialisation Index, the Hirschmann-Herfindahl index and the Ellison-Glaeser index typically do not take into account the spatial structure of the data. In this paper, we first consider traditional...

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Multilevel approaches and the firm-agglomeration ambiguity in economic growth studies

Oort, Frank van; Burger, Martijn J.; Knoben, Joris; … - 2012

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The impact of highways on population redistribution : the role of land development restrictions

Levkovich, Or; Rouwendal, Jan; Ommeren, Jos van - 2017

We study the role of land development restrictions for the effects of highway expansion on the spatial distribution of population. We demonstrate that these restrictions strongly interfered with the effects of highways in the Netherlands. Introducing an IV approach to address endogenous...

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National interference in local public good provision

Dur, Robert A. J.; Staal, Klaas - 2003

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