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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540907
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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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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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Geographical Economics: A Survey
Gatto, Massimo Del - In: Giornale degli Economisti 63 (2004) 2, pp. 205-241
Spatial Policy". From this perspective, both agglomeration and economic integration have to be reinterpreted on a wider …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005612311
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Can Information Asymmetry Cause Agglomeration?
Berliant, Marcus; Kung, Fan-chin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
repulsive forces to generate equilibria with cities and agglomeration. Can classical asymmetric information in the labor market …, in the form of adverse selection, result in an equilibrium that features agglomeration of agents? We use a model with two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616857
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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/10005616887
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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/10005623554
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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