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A simple theory of industry location and residence choice

Borck, Rainald (contributor); Pflüger, Michael (contributor) - 2007

This paper provides a simple theory of geographical mobility which simultaneously explains people’s choice of residences in space and the location of industry. Residences are chosen on the basis of the utility which mobile households obtain across locations. The spatial pattern of industry is...

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The impact of labor markets on emergence and persistence of regional asymmetries

Picard, Pierre M.; Toulemonde, Eric - 2001

This paper investigates the impact of labor markets and economies of agglomeration on firms location. We show that the existence of a lower bound on wage (e.g. a minimum wage or a reservation wage) introduces asymmetric location of firms. Moreover, changes in that lower bound or in global...

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Acquisition of skills, education subsidies, and agglomeration of firms

Toulemonde, Eric (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Inter-city spillover and intra-city agglomeration effects among local labour markets in China

Gong, Xiaodong; Gao, Jiti; Liang, Xuan - 2019

We examine how city size affect wage levels of cities (agglomeration externality) and how it influence surrounding … cities (spill-over effect) in China for the period between 1995 and 2009. Using spatial fixed-effect panel data models and … confirms the existence of agglomeration economy within cities. We also find significant differences in both the direct and …

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Family-centered measures of access to early care and education

Davis, Elizabeth; Lee, Won Fy; Sojourner, Aaron - 2018

This study proposes new family-centered measures of access to early care and education (ECE) services with respect to quantity, cost, and quality and uses them to assess disparities in access across locations and socio-demographic groups in Minnesota. These measures are distance-based and use...

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Comparative advantage and agglomeration of economic activity

Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016

The division of labor between and within countries is driven by two fundamental forces, comparative advantage and increasing returns. We set up a simple Ricardian model with a Marshallian input sharing mechanism to study their interplay. The key insight that emerges is that the interaction...

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No place like home : place-based attachments and regional science

Winters, John V. - 2022

Place-based attachments are important but often overlooked. Place-based attachments can be beneficial but often harm individuals tied to struggling areas. In this address, I discuss my own education and migration experiences and then more generally discuss sense of belonging as a friction to...

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Incubators, accelerators and regional economic development

Madaleno, Margarida; Nathan, Max; Overman, Henry G.; … - 2018

A growing wave of co-location programmes promises to boost growth for entrepreneurs and young firms. Despite great public and policy interest we have little idea whether such programmes are effective. This paper categorises accelerators and incubators within a larger family of co-location...

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Does light touch cluster policy work? : evaluating the Tech City programme

Nathan, Max - 2019

Despite academic scepticism, cluster policies remain popular with policymakers. This paper evaluates the causal impact …

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How urbanization affects employment and social interactions

Satō, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - 2014

We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...

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