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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …