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also, and differentially, by the sectoral levels of trade costs. The fundamental implication for an economic geography … fundamental tension which is intricately affected by trade costs. A reduction of trade costs fosters the dispersive impact of … relative to comparative advantage, and this is more likely the lower are trade costs in increasing returns sectors and the …
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This paper uses the quantitative spatial model with heterogeneous locations linked by costly goods trade, migration and commuting developed in Monte et al. (2018) to address the workings of local labor markets in Germany. One key contribution concerns the analysis of the role of the expenditure...
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We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability …
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Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the impact of immigration on the employment and wages of natives in the U.S. Yet, despite the...
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This paper presents a Schelling-type checkerboard model of residential segregation formulated as a spatial game. It shows that although every agent prefers to live in a mixed-race neighborhood, complete segregation is observed almost all of the time. A concept of tipping is rigorously defined,...
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This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim two main contributions. First, we use more sophisticated measures of the degree of exposure to competition from immigrants than previously done. Specifically, we focus on the...
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fundamental component of both the economic geography of modern societies and the perpetuation of innovation and economic growth at … equilibrium ; natural advantage ; economic geography …
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The paper uses a regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse the effects of immigration on three small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration scenarios are assessed. In the first, total labour supply is affected. In the second, the...
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and homeowner housing values, but housing values are forward-looking and may not reflect current user costs. This paper …
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workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and search-matching frictions to deal with the spatial mismatch …
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