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Trade and Agglomeration: the Strategic use of Protection Revisited

Thede, Susanna - 2007

models, in the so-called new economic geography framework, is sensitive to the standard assumption that there is a sole … the resulting national welfare levels in a new economic geography model including several agglomeration industries. The … jointly suggest that the stark argument for the strategic use of protection present in standard new economic geography models …

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Spoils of war: Trade shocks and segmented labor markets in Spain during WWI

Fuchs, Simon - 2021

imperfect labor mobility in an economic geography model, I show that external demand shocks can improve allocative efficiency …

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Heterogeneous Firms, the Structure of Industry & Trade under Oligopoly

Bekkers, Eddy; Francois, Joseph Francis - 2008

concentration following episodes of integration. Welfare rises with trade liberalization, unless trade costs decline from a …

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Cournot Competition, Market Size Effects and Agglomeration

Gallo, Fredrik - 2005

market size and economic integration on the allocation of industrial activity. For high levels of trade costs firms locate in … different regions. Lowering the trade costs beyond a critical level triggers an agglomeration of industry in the larger region …. This process of agglomeration is gradual in nature and trade costs have to be successively lowered for a full …

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Offshoring and non-monotonic employment effects across industries in general equilibrium

Baumgarten, Daniel; Irlacher, Michael; Koch, Michael - 2020

We address the mismatch between existing theoretical models and standard empirical practice in the analysis of the labor market effects of offshoring. While theory focuses on one-sector or two-sector models, empirical studies exploit variation in offshoring across a large number of industries,...

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Task specialization, immigration, and wages

Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - 2008

Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. Large inflows of less educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups are perfectly substitutable in production. In a simple model...

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Rethinking the gains from immigration: theory and evidence from the US

Peri, Giovanni; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2005

Recent influential empirical work has emphasized the negative impact immigrants have on the wages of U.S.-born workers, arguing that immigration harms less educated American workers in particular and all U.S.-born workers in general. Because U.S. and foreign born workers belong to different...

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The effects of immigration on California's labor market

Peri, Giovanni - 2006

As of 2004 California employed almost 30% of all foreign born workers in the U.S. and was the state with the largest percentage of immigrants in the labor force. It also received a very large number of Mexican and uneducated immigrants during the recent decades. If immigration harms the labor...

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Public housing units vs. housing vouchers: accessibility, local public goods, and welfare

Sarpça, Sinan; Leung, Charles Ka Yui; Yilmaz, Kuzey - 2010

A perennial debate worldwide over housing aid policy focuses on whether the government should provide housing vouchers or subsidized public housing units. To complement the empirically- dominated literature, this paper builds a general equilibrium model that merges urban land use (monocentric...

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Rethinking the area approach: Immigrants and the labor market in California, 1960-2005

Peri, Giovanni - 2009

A series of recent influential papers has emphasized that in order to identify the wage effects of immigration one needs to consider national effects by skill level. The criticism to the so called „area approach“ is based on the fact that native workers are mobile and would eliminate, in the...

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