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Temporal Agglomeration
Hall, Robert E. - 1989
When economic activity is concentrated over space or over time, it is more efficient. Most production occurs in geographic hot spots, and most production occurs between 9 and 12 in the morning and 1 to 5 in the afternoon on weekdays. The thick-market efficiencies that encourage the concentration...
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The Logic of Agglomeration
Duranton, Gilles - 2015
This review discusses frontier topics in economic geography as they relate to firms and agglomeration economies. We focus on areas where empirical research is scarce but possible. We first outline a conceptual framework for city formation that allows us to contemplate what empiricists might...
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Agglomeration : A Dynamic Approach
Hanlon, Walker - 2014
dynamic panel-data estimation equation. We implement the approach using detailed new data describing the industry composition …
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The Complementarity between Cities and Skills
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2009
There is a strong connection between per worker productivity and metropolitan area population, which is commonly interpreted as evidence for the existence of agglomeration economies. This correlation is particularly strong in cities with higher levels of skill and virtually non-existent in less...
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Geographic Concentration as a Dynamic Process
Dumais, Guy - 1997
The degree of geographic concentration of individual manufacturing industries in the U.S. has declined only slightly in the last twenty years. At the same time, new plant births, plant expansions, contractions and closures have shifted large quantities of employment across plants, firms, and...
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Unpacking Skill Bias : Automation and New Tasks
Acemoglu, Daron - 2020
. We extend this framework by modeling the allocation of tasks to factors and allowing richer forms of technological … changes in particular, automation that displaces workers from tasks they used to perform, and the creation of new tasks that … reinstate workers into the production process. We show that factor prices depend on the set of tasks that factors perform, and …
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The Requirements of Jobs : Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey
Gittleman, Maury - 2016
The Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS) is a new survey at the Bureau of Labor Statistics which collects data on the educational, cognitive, and physical requirements of jobs, as well as the environmental conditions in which the work is performed. Using pre-production data, we provide...
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Accounting for Changes in Between-Group Inequality
Burstein, Ariel - 2015
We perform a quantitative analysis of observed changes in U.S. between-group inequality between 1984 and 2003. We use an assignment framework with many labor groups, equipment types, and occupations in which changes in inequality are caused by changes in workforce composition, occupation demand,...
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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
Akerman, Anders - 2015
abstract tasks, and substitutes for unskilled workers in performing routine tasks. Taken together, our findings have important …
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Trade and Tasks : An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O. - 2014
This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...
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