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Heterogeneous skills and homogeneous land: Segmentation and agglomeration
Wrede, Matthias - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
briefly studies how trade in intermediate goods and endogenous land demand affect segmentation and agglomeration. …. It shows that the interplay of heterogeneous skills and comparatively homogeneous land demand triggers skill segmentation … and agglomeration. The core region that is more attractive to high skilled workers has a disproportionately large share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954430
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Frontiers of the New Economic Geography
Fujita, Masahisa; Mori, Tomoya - Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University - 2005
This paper presents an overview of recent development in the new economic geography (NEG), and discusses possible directions of its future development. Since there already exist several surveys on this topic, we focus on the selected features of the NEG which are important yet have attracted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385282
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Is India’s Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William; Goswami, Arti Grover - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2012
This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...
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Skills, Agglomeration and Segmentation
Mori, Tomoya; Turrini, Alessandro - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004988897
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Skills, Agglomeration and Segmentation
Mori Mori, Tomoya; Turrini, Alessandro Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
We investigate the role of skill heterogeneity in explaining location patterns induced by pecuniary externalities (Krugman (1991)). In our setting, sellers with higher skills perform better in the marketplace, and their sales are larger. Selling to distant locations leads to lower sales because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124178
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A theory of rational spatial agglomerations
Mossay, Pascal - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 43 (2013) 2, pp. 385-394
We model the behavior of rational forward-looking agents in a spatial economy. The economic geography structure is built on Fujita et al. (1999)'s racetrack economy. Workers choose optimally what to consume at each period, as well as which spatial itinerary to follow in the geographical space....
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Can information asymmetry cause agglomeration?
Berliant, Marcus; Kung, Fan-chin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
the agglomeration of agents in size or mass. We investigate agglomeration in sorting or by type of worker, that implies … agglomeration in size when worker populations differ by type. This kind of agglomeration can be driven by asymmetric information in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789316
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Microfoundations of Urban Agglomeration Economies
Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper studies the theoretical micro-foundations of urban agglomeration economies. We distinguish three types of … characterization of some of the main theoretical underpinnings of urban agglomeration economies, to discuss modeling issues that arise … when working with these tools, and to compare different sources of agglomeration economies in terms of the aggregate urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791489
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Trade and Industrial Location with Heterogenous Labour
Amiti, Mary; Pissarides, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
the quality of the match between job and worker, trade liberalization may lead to industrial agglomeration and inter …-industry trade. The agglomeration force is the improvement in the quality of matches when firms recruit from a bigger pool of labour …. The forces against agglomeration are the existence of trade costs and monopoly power in the labour market. We show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791724
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Can information asymmetry cause agglomeration?
Berliant, Marcus; Kung, Fan-chin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
the agglomeration of agents in size or mass. We investigate agglomeration in sorting or by type of worker, that implies … agglomeration in size when worker populations differ by type. This kind of agglomeration can be driven by asymmetric information in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565436