This article is a result from a broader study on the patterns of concentration and evolution of the process of industrial localization and the labor market in the Great MetropolitanArea of Costa Rica (GAM). This study is part of the research program on regionaleconomics that the Institute of...

This paper estimates the local employment multiplier for Brazil (2000-2010). The methodology is based on Moretti (2010) and Moretti and Thulin (2012) who estimated these multipliers for the U.S. and Sweden. We have estimated the impacts of changes in employment in the tradables sectors on the...

This paper estimates the local employment multiplier for Brazil (2000-2010). The methodology is based on Moretti (2010) and Moretti and Thulin (2012) who estimated these multipliers for the U.S. and Sweden. We have estimated the impacts of changes in employment in the tradables sectors on the...

El artículo que aquí presentamos es resultado del estudio de caso de la economía local de Pérez Zeledón y forma parte de la investigación que en economía regional hemos venido realizando en el Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Económicas (IICE) desde el año 2005. En este estudio...

Necessary and sufficient conditions for the equality of ordinary least squares and generalized least squares estimators in the linear regression model with firstorder spatial error processes are given.