lower firm specificity locate farther away from one another, and argue that it can be concluded that the "poaching" argument …

agglomeration economies, i.e. we examine whether firms share risks from idiosyncratic and sector specific shocks through labor … pooling. Estimating wage functions we find that job turnover depresses wages at the regional and the firm level, indicating … employment shocks. Both findings provide evidence that labor pooling matters as a source of agglomeration economies by allowing …

non-exporting firms. Our results show that agglomeration economies at zip-code level strongly effect the location decision … of industrial establishments and find the presence of agglomeration shadows, one of the core predictions of the standard … New Economic Geography formulations. -- Firm Location ; Agglomeration Economies ; Agglomeration Shadows …