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 more efficient in larger regions. Then, interregional mobility … and trade lead to a pattern of specialization where large scale regions have a comparative advantage in producing …

spillovers: trade, co-patenting and geographical proximity. Both our panel and instrumental variable estimations for European … designed to benefit all regions in Europe. …

data from WIOD (the 2013 release) with, regional economic accounts, and interregional trade estimates developed by PBL … available to the research community, from the Dutch government open data website. In this project, both a regional trade … intentionally on the regionalization of both trade and the regional use and supply of products by different economic actors. The …

Amsterdam as an instrumental variable to dialect-speaking, we find that male workers who speak a dialect earn 11.6% less while …

Amsterdam are often oversubscribed and admission is based on lotteries. Our results show that elite schools have negative …