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The costs of agglomeration: Land prices in French cities

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2012

We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent...

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The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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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 However, a wide range of historical documents of exceptional quality remain underutilised: their use has been hampered by their original format or by the massive amount of...

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The productivity advantages of large cities: Distinguishing agglomeration from firm selection

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 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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The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities: Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2016

We propose a new nonparametric approach to estimate the production function for housing. Our estimation treats output as a latent variable and relies on the first-order condition for profit maximisation with respect to non-land inputs by competitive house builders. For parcels of a given size,...

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Spatial Mismatch: From the Hypothesis to the Theories

Selod, Harris; Gobillon, Laurent; Zenou, Yves - 2003

Since the 1950s, there has been a steady decentralization of entry-level jobs towards the suburbs of American cities, while racial minorities ?and particularly blacks? have remained in city centers. In this context, the spatial mismatch hypothesis argues that because the residential locations of...

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Spatial Mismatch: From the Hypothesis to the Theories

Gobillon, Laurent; Selod, Harris; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Since the 1950s, there has been a steady decentralization of entry-level jobs towards the suburbs of American cities, while racial minorities —and particularly blacks— have remained in city centers. In this context, the spatial mismatch hypothesis argues that because the residential...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763795

The Empirics of Agglomeration Economies

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Gobillon, Laurent - 2014

We propose an integrated framework to discuss the empirical literature on the local determinants of agglomeration … developing economies. We finally provide a discussion of attempts to identify and quantify specific agglomeration mechanisms. …

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Sorting and local wage and skill distributions in France

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2012

This paper provides descriptive evidence about the distribution of wages and skills in denser and less dense employment areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser areas are more skilled. There is also strong over-representation of workers with particularly high and low skills...

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