Free mobility has not been thought of as an effective tool to correct over- or underproduction of externalities. In … this paper, we establish that foot voting can internalize the cost of negative externalities. Workers have to accept the … can effectively influence the equilibrium wage and rent to reflect the externalities by threatening to walk away if the …

differentiate between industry diversity and human capital diversity. In order to measure human capital diversity we construct a … industry structure and thus disregards that knowledge transmission merely occurs between individuals. This was already … industry diversity as an indicator for the breadth of the local knowledge base. However, we argue that the diversity of skills …

In this paper I assess the existence, and the magnitude, of technological externalities in the form of creativity …-based, indicators of creativity at the NUTS3 level, while controlling for firm localization, size and industry. I also control for … externalities emerge only after a certain density threshold is reached, this occurring typically in larger urban areas, typically …

The objective of this paper is to analyze the influence of industry characteristics on the localization and … in Spain. First, for a 3-digit level, we identify for each industry which type of agglomeration economies - localization … agglomeration economies, we analyse which industry characteristics are the sources that explain differences in the strength of these …

comparisons in order to avoid the confounding effect of sectorial and firm size composition of a region's manufacturing industry … be that, for Italy, the North-South divide in productivity levels is more apparent in capital and knowledge intensive …