-available trade data and the values of trade and migration elasticities. They have an intuitive interpretation in terms of underlying …We provide sufficient statistics for nominal and real wage exposure to productivity shocks in a constant elasticity … wages in each location with respect to productivity shocks in all locations. They are readily computed using commonly …

respect to the role of migration. Interestingly, migration seems to be unimportant for the convergence process, at odds with …

infrastructure and large markets). The significant factors in spatial concentration and total productivity growth are density, the … competition, sectorial specialization decreases both productivity and the rate of concentration. These results of the estimates … infrastructure, radical decreases in trade cost and the elimination of regional institutional barriers, as well as an active social …