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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 …
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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...
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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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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...
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Economic theories of systems of cities explain why production and consumption activities are concentrated in a number of urban areas of different sizes and industrial composition rather than uniformly distributed in space. These theories have been successively influenced by four paradigms: i)...
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models involving spatial agglomeration of economic activities. The proposed method overcomes the limitations of the Turing … (1952) approach that has been used to analyze the emergence of agglomeration in the multi-regional core–periphery (CP) model … of Krugman (1993, 1996). In other words, the proposed method allows us to examine whether agglomeration of mobile factors …
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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 labor …. The forces against agglomeration are the existence of trade costs and monopoly power in the labor market. We show that …
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to industrial agglomeration and inter-regional trade. Labor heterogeneity gives local monopoly power to firms but also … the local market, giving rise to an agglomeration force which can offset the forces against, trade costs and the erosion … of monopoly power. We derive analytically a robust agglomeration equilibrium and illustrate its properties with numerical …
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We investigate an economic geography model in which agricultural goods are costly to transport and in which manufactures hire labor from the local agricultural sector as unskilled labor. We show that agricultural transport costs and local-unskilled labor requirements in firms act as a dispersion...
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