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Warping space : high-speed rail and returns to scale in local labor markets ; conference paper

Heuermann, Daniel F.; Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2014 - February 2014

the product market and from the spatial sorting of workers and firms as a source for regional variation in productivity … labor markets is associated with productivity gains for workers living in peripheral regions. In sum, our results suggest … that between one third and half of overall agglomeration externalities are rooted in increasing returns to scale in local …

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Income inequality in general equilibrium

Bernon, Bastien; Konings, Jozef; Magerman, Glenn - International Research Conference on Household … - 2022

We develop a quantitative framework in which income inequality arises endogenously in response to productivity shocks …

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The economics of density : evidence from the Berlin Wall ; conference paper

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Redding, Stephen; Sturm, Daniel; … - 2013

This paper develops a quantitative model of city structure to separate agglomeration forces, dispersion forces and … stochastic shocks to worker productivity, which yield a gravity equation for commuting ows. To empirically disentangle …

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Continuous logit polycentric city model : conference paper

Wrede, Matthias - 2014 - This version: October 2013

This paper analyzes a closed linear polycentric city with homogenous households who probabilistically select their workplace and residence locations. The study utilizes a continuous logit model to describe household location choices. In contrast to the classic urban model with deterministic...

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Services, comparative advantage and agglomeration of economic activity : a Ricardo-Marshall model ; conference paper

Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2014 - This version: March 1, 2014, Preliminary

The last century has witnessed dramatic changes in the world economy. The service (tertiary) sector, which at the beginning of the 20th century was of little importance relative to agriculture and manufacturing, has become the dominant sector today, accounting for 80% and more of value added in...

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Spillover effects in local labor markets : evidence from mass layoffs ; conference paper

Gathmann, Christina; Helm, Ines; Schönberg, Uta - 2014 - First version: March 1, 2014

Governments are often willing to subsidize firms on the verge of bankruptcy. The main economic rationale behind these interventions is that a plant closure would not only harm the workers employed in that plant, but create a domino effect on the regional economy as a whole. Yet, little is still...

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