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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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A large body of literature considers the productive advantages of cities, or "agglomeration economies". Most empirical … studies report positive agglomeration economies, although large variation exists in the magnitude of estimates. We use a meta …, we find agglomeration elasticities are likely to lie in the range 2.7-6.4%. Our findings confirm the controls enabled by …
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and within sectors is provided. Scale economies are only important for across industries' variation in agglomeration, not … across industries' variation in agglomeration. Further evidence for intrasectoral trade explaining equalizing economic … Geography in explaining industrial and services sectors' agglomeration in the European Union. Therefore, new dynamic panel data …
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and within sectors is provided. Scale economies are only important for across industries' variation in agglomeration, not … across industries' variation in agglomeration. Further evidence for intrasectoral trade explaining equalizing economic … Geography in explaining industrial and services sectors' agglomeration in the European Union. Therefore, new dynamic panel data …
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on the one hand and persistent or even increasing spatial concentration (agglomeration) on the other. Kernel density …) foster the catching-up of lagging countries but at the same time forces for agglomeration of economic activities tend to …
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contributes with a classification of first- and second-nature causes of agglomeration and clustering. This part will also …
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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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This paper analyzes the effects of localized labor demand shocks in the tradable sector, such as the establishment of a large tradable firm in a municipality, over nontradable formal and informal jobs in the case of Mexico. Results indicate that locations that experienced this shock have between...
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This article investigates the geographical location of workers in jobs with high-knowledge requirements in the German economy. Our analysis takes individual-level data from the German socioeconomic panel (GSOEP) and combines them with the knowledge information for different jobs that comes from...
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