This paper examines the micro-foundations of occupational agglomeration in U.S. metropolitan areas, with an emphasis on … higher levels of geographic concentration than do occupations with generic knowledge requirements. Further, by analyzing co-agglomeration … evidence on the importance of labor market pooling as a determinant of occupational agglomeration …

-standing question whether agglomeration economies derive from specialization (within-industry) or diversity (between-industry). We show …

relationship between agglomeration externalities and the level of education. While the positive relationship between economic … density and productivity and wages has long been established in the economic literature, less is known about the effects of … density on the productivity of different types of workers. This paper shows that there is substantial heterogeneity in the …

This paper explores the relationship between routine-biased technological change and agglomeration economies. Using …