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Market potential and distance decay : growth and decline of sectors across locations in urban regions

Klaesson, Johan; Johansson, Börje - 2013

This paper introduces a model which identifies the economic activity of each local economy (location) and observes the time distance between each pair of locations as well as the average time distance between sub locations in each local economy. The study focuses on five categories of firms:...

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Employment, hours, and earnings consequences of job loss : US evidence from the displaced workers survey

Farber, Henry S. - In: Journal of labor economics 35 (2017), pp. 235-272

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Agglomeration economies, competitiveness and entrepreneurial performance

Komlósi, Éva; Páger, Balázs - 2015

This paper aims to elaborate the role of agglomeration effects on countries' competitiveness and entrepreneurial performance. Our research contributes to the understanding of the relationship that exists between a country's urban system characterized by spatial agglomeration (concentration) or...

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The productive city needs both : localization and urbanization economies across spatial scales in the city

Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Lundblad, Joakim - 2015 - This version 2015-01-16

This paper revisits a classical inquiry by addressing the question of localization and urbanization economies. We propose that specialization and diversity may offer externalities operating at different spatial scales. Using high-resolution geo-coded plant-level panel data for Swedish cities...

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Urban spatial structure and economic growth in Spanish metropolitan areas : 1992-2008

Alamá, Luisa; Roig-Casanova, Marta; Forte, Anabel; … - 2011

There is a large literature on the existence of agglomeration economies, as shown in the surveys by Moomaw (1983) or Gerking (1993). The benefits of these economies arise from multiple sources, but some negative externalities might also emerge. Within the hierarchical urban system, cities at...

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The cohort size-wage relationship in Europe

Moffat, John D.; Roth, Duncan - 2013 - Preliminary draft

is declining while that of the highly educated is rising. This study estimates the impact of cohort size on wages using … effect of cohort size on individual wages rather than on the average wage of a specific age-education group which allows … controlling for potentially confounding effects at the individual level. The effect of cohort size on male wages is identified …

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Spatial mobility and wage profiles : the role of general and location specific human capital matching

Morkutė, Gintarė - 2016

While there is a wealth of literature dealing with the spatial nature of knowledge and its transferral, I argue that the underlying mechanisms have not been sufficiently understood. Existing research relating the geography of inflows to firm productivity does not adequately address firm and...

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Location of national manufacturing in international context (the case of U.S.)

Kurichev, Nikolay - 2014

The case study of United States shows that global economic processes significantly influence the location of manufacturing. Analysis of multidimensional data covering 1860-2010 shows several stylized facts. Intensity of U.S. involvement in global economy by set of indicators is characterized by...

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Megalopolis : an assay for the identification of the world urban mega-structures

Arellano Ramos, Blanca Esmaragda; Roca Cladera, Josep - 2015

The urban development of the twentieth century can be characterized by rise of the metropolitanization process. However, especially since 1950, it has been producing a real change of scale in this growth: the infinite growth of metropolitan peripheries, encouraged by the process of urban sprawl,...

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Continuity and change in workplaces of Beyoglu in the period 1950-2011

Girişken, Gülin Tunca - 2014

20th century witnessed Istanbul's unexpected and tumultuous economic, politic, social and spatial transformation. In the first quarter of the 20th century, Istanbul lost half of its population and went through a stagnated duration; however the city regained its importance and former population...

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