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This paper presents a simple Chamberlinian agglomeration model which, like the canonical core-periphery (CP) model … complete agglomeration predicted by the CP model. …
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This paper presents a simple, analytically solvable Chamberlinian agglomeration model. As in the canonical core …
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This paper presents a simple, analytically solvable Chamberlinian agglomeration model. As in the canonical core …
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How does intranational factor mobility shape the welfare effects of a trade shock? I provide evidence that during WWI, a demand shock emanated from belligerent countries and affected neutral Spain. Within Spain, labor predominantly reallocated locally, while the most affected provinces...
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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 …
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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...
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agglomeration of skilled labour can reduce "real" income in both regions. Even if there is a "winning" region, human capital and …
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We use a quantitative model to study the implications of European integration for welfare and migration flows across 1,318 regions. The model suggests that an increase of trade barriers to the level of 1957 reduces welfare by about 1-2 percent on average, depending on the presumed trade...
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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...
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