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that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firm-worker matching process. Our method makes use of recent …. -- agglomeration ; matching ; fixed-effects …
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key insight that emerges is that the interaction between agglomeration economies and comparative advantage involves a … comparative advantage in sectors governed by this force whilst the impact of agglomeration economies is enhanced by trade cost … small economies is not only shaped by the primitives that determine agglomeration economies and comparative advantage but …
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This paper presents a simple, analytically solvable Chamberlinian agglomeration model. As in the canonical core …
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This paper examines the role of regional aggregation in measuring agglomeration externalities. Using Dutch … agglomeration externalities at a higher spatial scale. We quantify subgroup differentials and find that high-educated workers have … agglomeration externalities twice as high as low-educated workers. We show that workers who lose their job in denser LLMs experience …
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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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We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are "too small" to follow Zipf's law.
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Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...
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This paper estimates the link between population density and COVID-19 spread and severity in the contiguous United States. To overcome confounding factors, we use two Instrumental Variable (IV) strategies that exploit geological features and historical populations to induce exogenous variation...
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China is a central concern for the government and society. In this paper, we apply agglomeration theories to distinguish the … census, we measure the formation of new POEs at the city-industry level, and the agglomeration forces of distance proximity … downstream SOEs are concentrated. However, the agglomeration effects from the incumbent POEs are either insignificant or …
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Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical data on...
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