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Taste heterogeneity, labor mobility and economic geography - A critical reconsideration and correction
Russek, Stephan - 2007
agglomeration is highest when trade costs are high. Besides this minor problem, the second critical issue concerns the welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294654
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"Taste heterogeneity, labor mobility and economic geography" - A critical reconsideration and correction
Russek, Stephan - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
agglomeration is highest when trade costs are high. Besides this minor problem, the second critical issue concerns the welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005557814
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A theory of rational spatial agglomerations
Mossay, Pascal - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 43 (2013) 2, pp. 385-394
We model the behavior of rational forward-looking agents in a spatial economy. The economic geography structure is built on Fujita et al. (1999)'s racetrack economy. Workers choose optimally what to consume at each period, as well as which spatial itinerary to follow in the geographical space....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010636464
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Labour market integration, human capital formation, and mobility
Haupt, Alexander; Übelmesser, Silke - 2014
agglomeration of skilled labour can reduce "real" income in both regions. Even if there is a "winning" region, human capital and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403243
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Metropolitan area delineation and resilience under a public health crisis : evidence from the Philippines
Jiang, Yi; Laranjo, Jade R. - 2024
the agglomeration. Regression analysis highlights that proximity, administrative boundaries, accessibility, and labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015055279
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Transport Costs and the Size Distribution of a Linearly Arranged System of Cities
Kauffmann, Albrecht - 2010
The question regarding the effects of changing transports costs on the size distribution of cities is an important topic of systems of cities research. The so-called New Economic Geography has already given some answers to this question. One central assumption in this kind of model is a very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285512
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Comparative advantage and agglomeration of economic activity
Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543995
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Rural roads and urban agglomeration economies : benefits for town and country?
Bell, Clive - 2018
Do urban agglomeration economies enhance the social profitability of rural roads? When all goods are traded at … families. In a closed, two-good economy with mobile labour, the effects of agglomeration economies depend on the … presence of empirically plausible elasticities of agglomeration economies when preferences are Cobb-Douglas and urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874088
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Taste heterogeneity, labor mobility and economic geography
TABUCHI, Takatoshi; THISSE, Jacques-François - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2001
likely to involve too much agglomeration compared to the former. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005043197
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Taste Heterogeneity, Labour Mobility and Economic Geography
Tabuchi, Takatoshi; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
likely to involve too much agglomeration compared to the former. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661828