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market equilibrium is not optimal because of social externalities. We determine the value of the subsidy to interactions that …
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Using administrative data for West Germany, this paper investigates whether part of the urban wage premium stems from fierce competition in thick labour markets. We first establish that employers possess less wage-setting power in denser markets. Local differences in wage-setting power predict...
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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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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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density on productivity but we also consider many other local determinants supported by theory. Empirical issues are then …
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A prominent feature of economic geography in America is the positive correlation amongst local incomes, housing costs and city population. This paper embeds a "black box" agglomeration economy within a more neoclassical general equilibrium model of local wages, rents and population to assess the...
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taxes under a balanced-budget rule in the presence of consumption externalities of the "keeping up with the Joneses" type … eliminating belief-driven cyclical fluctuations. Moreover, for higher values of consumption externalities, saddle path stability …
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Research consistently finds more workplace injuries occur on Mondays than on other weekdays. One hypothesis is that workers fraudulently claim that off-the-job weekend sprains and strains occurred at work on the Monday in order to receive workers' compensation. We test this using data from New...
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selection. Building on their framework we demonstrate that externalities between agents - an agent's utility upon accepting a … when the size of the externalities is arbitrarily small. Our result highlights the degree of control a principal has over …
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We show that downsizing has substantial externalities on the health of workers who remain in the firm. To this end, we … health externalities due to downsizing imply non-negligible cost for firms, and that wage cuts may have similar effects …
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