Concentration of economic activity and, in particular, concentration of population emerges as a relevant feature of this century. The grave problems associated with large cities (urban traffic congestion, pollution, crime, etc.) have made the study of them an important topic. The first step to...

The aim of this paper is to study the location decisions of upstream and downstream industries when transport costs in each sector are analyzed separately. By using a new economic geography model built on Venables (1996), it will be shown that the effects of cost reductions in transporting final...

En los últimos años la economía está viviendo un proceso de globalización que afecta a muchos ámbitos. En el presente trabajo se discuten las repercusiones que dicho fenómeno puede tener sobre las ciudades. En este sentido, se presentan las aportaciones de la Nueva Geografía Económica...

Using the 2005-2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity across states. Although the unconditional analysis shows great geographical variation in segregation, with the largest levels in the Southwest, the analysis of segregation...

This paper defines local segregation measures which are sensible to status differences among organizational units. So far as we know, this is the first time that status-sensitive segregation measures are offered in a multigroup context by invoking a cardinal measure of status. These measures...

The aim of this paper is to study occupational segregation by gender in Spain, which is a country where occupational segregation explains a large part of the gender wage gap. As opposed to previous studies, this paper measures not only overall segregation, but also the segregation of several...