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Industry Churning and the Evolution of Cities:Evidence for Germany
Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkablywell in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simplerank-size rule known as Zipf´s law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is thechurning of industries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861364
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Labor Demand Shocks and Housing Prices Across the Us : Does One Size Fit All?
Osei, Michael J. - 2018
This paper examines whether effects of labor demand shocks on housing prices vary across time and space. Using data on 321 US metropolitan statistical areas, we estimate the medium- and long-run effects of increases in metropolitan statistical area-level employment and total labor income on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915342
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Migration and Urbanisation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Bakker, Jan David - 2016
population. In particular, we test if migration inflows led to displacement, path dependence, or agglomeration in destination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985650
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Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction : Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda
Christiaensen, Luc J. - 2017
This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment towards secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance. Of course the hypothesis raises many questions. What exactly is the dichotomy of secondary towns versus big...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960252
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Industry Churning and the Evolution of Cities : Evidence for Germany
Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2021
In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkably well in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simple rank-size rule known as Zipf's law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is the "churning" of industries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316686
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Firm-Worker Matching in Industrial Clusters
Figueiredo, Octávio; Guimarães, Paulo; Woodward, … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firmworkermatching process. Our method makes use of recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522215
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The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities : Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012
cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote … a generalised version of a tractable firm selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the …
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Labor Market Pooling, Outsourcing and Labor Contracts
Picard, Pierre M. - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157029
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Urban Density and Covid-19
Carozzi, Felipe - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829212
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The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas
Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2015
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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023013