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Comparative advantage and agglomeration of economic activity
Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016
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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Welfare benefits of agglomeration and worker heterogeneity
Teulings, Coen N.; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Groot, Henri L. … - 2014
effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010394598
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Some evidence on the nature of urbanization economies
Krupka, Douglas J. - 2009
/resident happiness and/or reducing productivity of employers. -- Agglomeration ; urbanization economies ; congestion ; regional …
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Unaffordable housing and local employment growth : evidence from California municipalities
Chakrabarti, Ritashree; Zhang, Junfu - 2014
It is widely believed that unaffordable housing could drive businesses away and thus impede job growth. However, there is little evidence to support this view. This paper presents a simple model to clarify how housing affordability is linked to employment growth and why unaffordable housing...
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Optimal spatial taxation : are big cities too small?
Eeckhout, Jan; Guner, Nezih - 2015
We analyze the role of optimal income taxation across different local labor markets. Should labor in large cities be taxed differently than in small cities? We find that a planner who needs to raise revenue and is constrained by free mobility of labor across cities does not choose equal taxes...
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The pure effect of social preferences on regional location choices : the evolving dynamics of convergence to a steady state population distribution
Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2019
This paper tracks the consequences of individuals' desire to align their location with their social preferences. The social preference studied in the paper is distaste for relative deprivation, measured in a cardinal manner. Location is conceived as social space, with individuals choosing to...
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Urban economics in a historical perspective: recovering data with machine learning
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Gobillon, Laurent; Zylberberg, … - 2021
A recent literature has used a historical perspective to better understand fundamental questions of urban economics. However, a wide range of historical documents of exceptional quality remain underutilised: their use has been hampered by their original format or by the massive amount of...
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Urban redevelopment program and demand externality
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Kawata, Keisuke; Okamoto, Chigusa - 2024
Demand externality generated by the agglomeration of commercial activities is a potential source of city formation. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014517049
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The effects of climate change in the poorest countries : evidence from the permanent shrinking of Lake Chad
Jedwab, Remi; Haslop, Federico; Zarate, Roman D.; … - 2023
Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, i.e. CC as defined by the IPCC (2013), have been studied relatively less, especially in...
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Endogenous local labour markets, regional aggregation and agglomeration economies
Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J. - 2019
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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