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Heterogeneous Skills and Homogeneous Land: Segmentation and Agglomeration

Wrede, Matthias - 2010

agglomeration. The core region, being more attractive to high skilled workers, has a disproportionately large share of production at … all levels of the supply chain. The paper studies the effects on segmentation and agglomeration of interregional trade in …

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Heterogenous skills and homogeneous land: segmentation and agglomeration

Wrede, Matthias - 2009

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Heterogeneous skills and homogeneous land: Segmentation and agglomeration

Wrede, Matthias - 2012

and agglomeration. The core region that is more attractive to high skilled workers has a disproportionately large share of … briefly studies how trade in intermediate goods and endogenous land demand affect segmentation and agglomeration. …

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Heterogeneous skills and homogeneous land: Segmentation and agglomeration

Wrede, Matthias - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

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New Economic Geography: Empirical Evidence of the Estimation of the Nominal Wage Equation

Rodriguez, Jesus Lopez; Faiña, Andrés - In: Lecturas de Economía (2008) 69, pp. 41-62

In this paper we analyze the empirical developments concerning the estimation of the nominal wage equation proposed in the context of the New Economic Geography models. Results from the empirical works carried out for a sample of countries and for the European Union confirm the theoretical...

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Frontiers of the New Economic Geography

Fujita, Masahisa; Mori, Tomoya - Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University - 2005

This paper presents an overview of recent development in the new economic geography (NEG), and discusses possible directions of its future development. Since there already exist several surveys on this topic, we focus on the selected features of the NEG which are important yet have attracted...

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Trade and Industrial Location with Heterogeneous Labor

Amiti, Mary; Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

the quality of the match between job and worker, trade liberalization may lead to industrial agglomeration and inter …-industry trade. The agglomeration force is the improvement in the quality of matches when firms recruit from a bigger pool of labor …. The forces against agglomeration are the existence of trade costs and monopoly power in the labor market. We show that …

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Is India’s Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William; Goswami, Arti Grover - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2012

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...

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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....

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Frontiers of the New Economic Geography

Fujita, Masahisa; Mori, Tomoya - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2005

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