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production at all levels of the supply chain. The paper studies the effects on segmentation and agglomeration of interregional …. It shows that the interplay of heterogeneous skills and relatively homogeneous land demand triggers skill segmentation … and agglomeration. The core region, being more attractive to high skilled workers, has a disproportionately large share of …
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all levels of the supply chain. The paper studies the effects on segmentation and agglomeration of interregional trade in …. It shows that the interplay of heterogenous skills and relatively homogeneous land demand triggers skill segmentation and … agglomeration. The core region, being more attractive to high skilled workers, has a disproportionately large share of production at …
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briefly studies how trade in intermediate goods and endogenous land demand affect segmentation and agglomeration. …. It shows that the interplay of heterogeneous skills and comparatively homogeneous land demand triggers skill segmentation … and agglomeration. The core region that is more attractive to high skilled workers has a disproportionately large share of …
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briefly studies how trade in intermediate goods and endogenous land demand affect segmentation and agglomeration. …. It shows that the interplay of heterogeneous skills and comparatively homogeneous land demand triggers skill segmentation … and agglomeration. The core region that is more attractive to high skilled workers has a disproportionately large share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309608
This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...
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This paper presents an overview of recent development in the new economic geography (NEG), and discusses possible directions of its future development. Since there already exist several surveys on this topic, we focus on the selected features of the NEG which are important yet have attracted...
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The question regarding the effects of changing transports costs on the size distribution of cities is an important topic of systems of cities research. The so-called New Economic Geography has already given some answers to this question. One central assumption in this kind of model is a very...
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key insight that emerges is that the interaction between agglomeration economies and comparative advantage involves a … comparative advantage in sectors governed by this force whilst the impact of agglomeration economies is enhanced by trade cost … small economies is not only shaped by the primitives that determine agglomeration economies and comparative advantage but …
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and city population. This paper embeds a “black box” agglomeration economy within a more neoclassical general equilibrium … and wages move in the same direction under neo-classical assumptions, agglomeration economies in production, congestion in … variables, although some of these effects are ambiguous in the production agglomeration model. If natural advantage and housing …
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