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Schooling supply and the structure of production: Evidence from US States 1950-1990

Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011

We find that over the period 1950-1990, US states absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards more...

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The Ability to Adapt and Overcome Obstacles: Machinery Exports of Poland

Kellman, Mitchell H.; Shachmurove, Yochanan - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2012

From 1980-2009 the Polish economy experienced structural dislocation. The growth and success of the Solidarity movement represented the shift in manufacturing from Soviet bloc trade to membership in the European Union. This paper examines four independent metrics that measure the changing...

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A Spatial Knowledge Economy

Davis, Donald R.; Dingel, Jonathan I. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

emerges from symmetric fundamentals, and why skilled workers have higher migration rates than unskilled workers when both are …

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Density (dis)economies in transportation: revisiting the core-periphery model

Gaigne, Carl; Behrens, Kristian - In: Economics Bulletin 18 (2006) 5, pp. 1-7

We study how density (dis)economies in interregional transportation influence location patterns in a standard new economic geography model. Density economies may well delay the occurrence of agglomeration when compared to the case without such economies, while agglomeration is both more likely...

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The Spatial Effects of Trade Openness : A Survey

Brülhart, Marius - 2010

This paper surveys the literature on the implications of trade liberalisation for intra-national economic geographies. Three results stand out. First, neither urban systems models nor new economic geography models imply a robust prediction on the impact of trade openness on spatial...

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The Core-Periphery Model with Forward-Looking Expectations

Baldwin, Richard E. - 1999

The "core-periphery model" is vitiated by its assumption of static expectations. That is, migration (inter-regional or … migration predictably alters wages and workers are (implicitly) infinitely lived. The assumption was necessary for analytic … consider forward-looking expectations. These techniques reveal a startling result. If quadratic migration costs are …

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The EU's New Economic Geography after the Eastern Enlargement

Marques, Helena; Metcalf, Hugh - 2008

's Eastern enlargement on current and future EU member countries under pure trade integration and with migration of skilled … human capital engaged in R&D. Allowing for migration prevents the relocation of firms into the integrating periphery …

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Borders and Distance in Knowledge Spillovers : Dying over Time or Dying with Age? - Evidence from Patent Citations

Li, Yao Amber - 2015

This paper explores the effects of distance as well as subnational and national borders on international and intranational knowledge spillovers through patent citations across the 39 most patent-cited countries and 319 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) within the U.S. In contrast to previous...

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Governmental Strategic Arrangement, Second Nature Advantage, and China's Provincial Export Disparity

Yu, Peng - 2013

This paper studies the cause of China’s provincial export disparity, especially the difference among coastal provinces. Both time-invariant and time-variant factors are studied. The paper estimates the effects of time-invariant factors on the export orientation of the economy. It argues that...

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The Core-Periphery Model and Endogenous Growth : Stabilizing and Destabilizing Integration

Baldwin, Richard E.; Forslid, Rikard - 2001

We present a model where long-run growth and industrial location are jointly endogenous by introducing Romerian product innovation growth into Krugman's core-periphery model. We focus on stability, showing that growth is a powerful centripetal force, but that knowledge spillovers are a powerful...

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