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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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We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability …
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(decreasing transport costs) has a different impact on the equilibrium ownership structure of that industry, depending on the type …
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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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This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy where homogeneous workers and jobs are free to move and the housing market clears. Because of the Internet, searching for a job in another region without first migrating there is nowadays much simpler than in the past....
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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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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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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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