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This paper exploits a geocoded, publicly audited, full population dataset on employment and wages in Sweden's city areas, to analyze the relationship between density of economic activity and individual wages. The analysis is based on 250-by-250 meter (about 0.15 miles), 1 km2, 9 km2 and 100 km2...
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This paper is one of the first attempts to utilize the theoretical framework of the new economic geography for explaining agricultural land prices. We adopt a model proposed by Pflüger and Tabuchi (2010), which allows to consider land as a production factor. We derive a short-run equilibrium...
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factor productivity and workers' fixed effect. Two different methods then yield evidence in favor of positive assortative … production function. When generally higher productivities and wages in dense regions (caused by agglomeration economies and …
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of geography. After controlling for agglomeration economies and the interaction effect of geography and agglomeration …
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The question whether agglomeration effects are of importance for regional development has a long tradition in regional … science. This paper asks if regional characteristics and specifically ag-glomeration effects influence the performance of … regional agglomeration effects for Germany. Second, while earlier papers looked only at few sectors of the economy or only at …
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and industries. All these effects have the potential to increase the productivity (and profitability) of firms. Whereas …
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