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relationship between agglomeration externalities and the level of education. While the positive relationship between economic … density and productivity and wages has long been established in the economic literature, less is known about the effects of … density on the productivity of different types of workers. This paper shows that there is substantial heterogeneity in the …
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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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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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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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We consider whether external urban economic advantages (agglomeration economies) vary with time and space using a … agglomeration economies that are stronger than average. …
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) agglomeration economies and (negative) environmentalexternalities. Based on a simplified representation of a linear urban economy … simulations. The model includes a spacious industrial centrein which agglomeration externalities are differentiated over space …
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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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