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The direct impact of local public goods on welfare is relatively easy to measure from land rents. However, the indirect effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model for the valuation of these...
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Urbanization economies - the effects on productivity and utility created endogenously by larger cities - are a …. Krupka (2008) presents a general model in which exogenous variation in local productivity ("natural advantage") and …/resident happiness and/or reducing productivity of employers. -- Agglomeration ; urbanization economies ; congestion ; regional …
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As a consequence of World War II, Austria was divided into four different occupation zones for 10 years. Before tight travel restrictions came into place, about 11 percent of the population residing in the Soviet zone moved across the demarcation line. We exploit this large internal migration...
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consequences of productivity differences across local labor markets. I seek to understand what happens to the wage, employment and … utility of workers with different skill levels when a local economy experiences a shift in the productivity of a group of … workers. Second, I analyze the causes of productivity differences across local labor markets. To a large extent, productivity …
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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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higher productivity and wages with a greater social distance to their culture of origin. We show that "oppositional" ethnic … minorities reside in more segregated areas, have worse outcomes (in terms of income) but are not necessary worse off in terms of … transportation cost decreases rather than increases assimilation in cities. We also find that when there are more productivity …
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This paper examines the role of regional aggregation in measuring agglomeration externalities. Using Dutch administrative data, we define local labour markets (LLMs) based on the worker's commuting outcomes, gender and educational attainment, and show that high-educated workers and male workers...
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This paper explores the relationship between routine-biased technological change and agglomeration economies. Using administrative data from the Netherlands, we first show that in dense areas, jobs are less routine-task intensive (i.e. less repetitive and automatable), meaning that jobs cover a...
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We examine effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment losses across metropolitan area status and population size. Non-metropolitan and metropolitan areas of all sizes experienced significant employment losses, but the impacts are much larger in large metropolitan areas. Employment losses...
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This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a new quantitative spatial trade model and to use an...
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