Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Wages and skills as Locational Factors -- Skill, Productivity, and Unionization -- Wages and Fringe Benefits -- Postwar Trends in Wages -- Pressures from within the Region -- The Wage Factor and the Region's Future -- Acknowledgment -- Appendix -- Notes --...

We consider an economy in which a heterogeneous population of agents have to choose among a common set of alternatives. The utilities associated to the different alternatives posses a common component and an individual component, which reflect differences in the underlying structure of agents...