Skill-biased technical change is identified as the driving force behind the changing skill composition in OECD countries rather than structural change. The finding is partly the result of the sectoral view taken. This paper suggests a different view which uses the production process as a...

In this paper we examine how uncertainty might lead to an agglomerative bias in the domain of competition between jurisdictions for mobile citizens. Since Tiebout's (1956) seminal work asserting that competition between jurisdictions would lead to a first best allocation even in the presence of...