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A simple, analytically solvable, Chamberlinian agglomeration model
Pflüger, Michael - 2003 - Final version
This paper presents a simple Chamberlinian agglomeration model which, like the canonical core-periphery (CP) model … complete agglomeration predicted by the CP model. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438277
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A simple, analytically solvable Chamberlinian agglomeration model
Pflüger, Michael - 2001
This paper presents a simple, analytically solvable Chamberlinian agglomeration model. As in the canonical core …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403753
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Differential labor mobility, agglomeration, and skill-biased migration policies
Russek, Stephan - 2009
The paper analyzes the impact of skill-biased migration policies under the economics of agglomeration. It therefore … develops an agglomeration model with two types of mobile worker who are heterogeneous and differ both within and between skill … contra-unskilled migration policies attenuate each other or can even be counterproductive. -- agglomeration ; labor mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003843425
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Home market effects and the single-sector Melitz model
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Jung, Benjamin - 2011
Increasing-returns-to-scale imperfect competition trade models predict a more than proportionate relationship between the larger country's share in world endowments and its share in producing firms: the so called home market effect (HME). While this result plays a key role in empirical testing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009489286
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The economic geography of labour migration: Competition, competitiveness and development
Kancs, D'Artis - 2010 - Revised
The present paper studies labour migration in the enlarged EU. Adopting the Krugman’s framework of the New Economic Geography, we are able to study both the determinants of labour migration, such as market potential, wages, cost of living on one hand, and labour migration on the other hand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523053
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Labour market integration, human capital formation, and mobility
Haupt, Alexander; Übelmesser, Silke - 2014
agglomeration of skilled labour can reduce "real" income in both regions. Even if there is a "winning" region, human capital and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403243
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A global view of cross-border migration
Di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ortega, Francesc - 2012
This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and destinations, using a quantitative multi-sector model of the global economy calibrated to aggregate and firm-level data on 60 developed and developing countries. Our framework accounts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545275
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Labour migration in the enlarged EU : a new economic geography approach
Kancs, D'Artis - 2011
The paper studies the impact of migration policy liberalisation on international labour migration in the enlarged EU in a structural NEG approach. The liberalisation of migration policy would induce additional 1.80 - 2.98 percent of the total EU workforce to change their country of location,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524916
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Climate change and migration : the case of Africa
Conte, Bruno - 2022
This paper estimates the impacts of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) on migration and other economic outcomes. I develop a quantitative spatial model that captures the role of trade networks, migration barriers, and agricultural yields on the geography of the economy. I combine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013368895
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Regional corridors development in regional cooperation
Srivastava, Pradeep - 2011
Regional corridors are popular components of regional cooperation initiatives and have been in use for several years. Yet discussion about development of these corridors tends to be relatively general in scope and difficult to pin down in terms of content and implications. This paper elaborates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009301889