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Francois, Joseph F.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 1998 - Rev.

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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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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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 …, we find agglomeration elasticities are likely to lie in the range 2.7-6.4%. Our findings confirm the controls enabled by …

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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 - 2012

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Economic integration and manufacturing location in EU accession countries

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Siedschlag, Iulia - 2003

This paper investigates patterns of manufacturing location in the context of increased economic integration in Central and East European countries. Using regional data for the period 1990-1999, we identify and compare patterns and determinants of manufacturing location in five European Union...

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Comparative advantage, the rank-size rule, and Zipf's law

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2006

Using a comprehensive international trade data set we investigate empirical regularities (known as Zipf’s Law or the rank-size rule) for the distribution of the interaction between countries as measured by revealed comparative advantage. Using the recently developed estimator by Gabaix and...

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Space and growth

Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond J. … - 2004

This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial factors. An important distinction in this literature is the one between absolute and relative location. The literature on absolute location predominantly uses non-spatial...

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Search and the city

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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Does access to foreign markets shape internal migration? : evidence from Brazil

Hering, Laura; Paillacar, Rodrigo - 2014

This paper investigates how internal migration is affected by Brazil's increased integration into the world economy. We analyze the impact of regional differences in access to foreign demand on sector-specific bilateral migration rates between the Brazilian states for the years 1995 to 2003....

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Productivity effects of an exogenous improvement in transport infrastructure : accessibility and the Great Belt Bridge

De Borger, Bruno L.; Mulalic, Ismir; Rouwendal, Jan - 2019

Most studies of the effects of transport infrastructure on the performance of individual firms have focused on marginal expansions of the rail or highway network over time. In this paper, we study the short-run effects of a large discrete shock in the quality of transport infrastructure, viz....

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