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Cities, Skills, and Regional Change
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2011
One approach to urban areas emphasizes the existence of certain immutable relationships, such as Zipf's or Gibrat's Law. An alternative view is that urban change reflects individual responses to changing tastes or technologies. This paper examines almost 200 years of regional change in the U.S....
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Spatial Development
Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2021
We present a theory of spatial development. Manufacturing and services firms located in a continuous geographic area choose each period how much to innovate. Firms trade subject to transport costs and technology diffuses spatially across locations. The result is a spatial endogenous growth...
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Welfare Work Requirements with Paternalistic Government Preferences
Moffitt, Robert A. - 2006
Work requirements in means-tested transfer programs have grown in importance in the U.S. and in some other countries. The theoretical literature which considers their possible optimality generally operates within a traditional welfarist framework where some function of the utility of the poor is...
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Housing Booms, Manufacturing Decline, and Labor Market Outcomes
Charles, Kerwin Kofi - 2013
We study the extent to which manufacturing decline and local housing booms contributed to changes in labor market outcomes during the 2000s, focusing primarily on the distributional consequences across geographical areas and demographic groups. Using a local labor markets design, we estimate...
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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men
Autor, David H. - 2017
We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during...
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Abandoned by Coal, Swallowed by Opioids?
Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2019
Opioid addiction and mortality skyrocketed over the past decade. A casual look at the geographic incidence of opioid mortality shows sharply higher mortality rates in the Appalachian region, especially in coal-mining areas. This has led observers to make a link that was characterized by one...
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Deindustrialization, Reindustrialization, and the Real Exchange Rate
Krugman, Paul R. - 2021
This paper models an economy in which it is costly to move resources between the tradeable and nontradeable sectors. The economy is subject to capital flows that are unpredictable and are perceived as having only limited persistence. The model shows that both the fact that capital flows are...
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Mughal Decline, Climate Change, and Britain'S Industrial Ascent : An Integrated Perspective on India'S 18th and 19th Century Deindustrialization
Clingingsmith, David; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
deindustrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25 percent of world industrial output in 1750, this figure had fallen to … only 2 percent by 1900. We ask how much of India's deindustrialization was due to local supply-side forces -- such as … tradable to non-tradable goods and own-wages in the tradable sectors back to 1765. Whether Indian deindustrialization shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218826
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Domestic Distortions and the Deindustrialization Hypothesis
Krugman, Paul R. - 2021
Jagdish Bhagwati. This paper models the deindustrialization hypothesis explicitly as a domestic distortions issue, and shows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223327
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India'S De-Industrialization Under British Rule : New Ideas, New Evidence
Clingingsmith, David; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
some decline, and India underwent secular de-industrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25 percent of … organize our thinking about the relative role played by domestic and foreign forces in India's de-industrialization. The … sectors going back to 1765. With this new relative price evidence in hand, we ask how much of the de-industrialization was due …
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