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Empirics of Agglomeration and Trade. [PDF]
This chapter examines empirical strategies that have been or could be used to evaluate the importance of agglomeration and trade models. This theoretical approach, widely known as “New Economic Geography” (NEG), emphasizes the interaction between ...
Head, Keith, Mayer, Thierry
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Agglomeration economies and the location of new information and communication technology (ICT) firms in the Netherlands [PDF]
In 2000, the world wide, rapid employment growth in the ICT-sector came to an end. Knowledge-intensive ICT-firms and -sectors in the Netherlands confirmed to this negative development trend as well. The life-cycle of the ICT-sector appears to reach a new
van Oort, Frank, Atzema, Oedzge
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Why and when do cities vote for the left? The emergence of the urban–rural divide in the United States in the 1930s is inconsistent with canonical theories of cleavages. This paper introduces an explanation: agglomeration effects. The provision of government services is more efficient in urban environments because of nonrivalries, economies of
Theo Serlin
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Human Capital Externalities and the Urban Wage Premium: Two Literatures and their Interrelations [PDF]
In this paper we survey the recent developments in two empirical literatures at the crossroads of labor and urban economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) and about the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the methods and
Suedekum, Jens +2 more
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The geography of economic mobility in 19th‐century Canada
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.Abstract This paper uses linked Census records from 1871 to 1901 to compute intergenerational mobility for Canadian regions and census divisions. The results reveal sharp differences in mobility over space: Ontario featured high relative and absolute mobility, Quebec low relative and absolute mobility and the Maritimes low absolute mobility.
Luiza Antonie +3 more
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Agglomeration externalities and technical efficiency in French pig production [PDF]
The objective of the paper is to assess the effects of spatial agglomeration on the technical efficiency of French pig farms. We use a two-stage method with the first stage consisting of calculating the efficiency scores of pig activity with the non ...
Laure Latruffe, Solène Larue
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Reindustrialization meets rural reality: The limits of foreign direct investment‐led development
Contemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.Abstract As industrial policy drives new waves of foreign direct investment (FDI) into the U.S., rural areas are becoming key destinations. Using synthetic control, difference‐in‐differences, and propensity score matching, I examine whether rural FDI translates job growth into higher incomes.
Kara Jones
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Migration and agglomeration with knowledge spillovers [PDF]
In this paper, a Grossman-Helpman-Romer-type endogenous growth model is developed with two regions in which there are mobile workers and linkage between consumption goods and differentiated intermediate goods.
Kyoko Hirose
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cultures and governance of security markets in the United Kingdom are often characterised through a paradoxical narrative of simultaneous state retreat and progressive advance. In the face of repeated recent high‐profile security failures, and global changes in material political economy, we argue that UK security governance is adapting to
Ben Collier, Jamie Buchan
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Agglomeration economies in the Finnish manufacturing sector [PDF]
Regional concentration of population and economic activity is a common phenomenon both in Finland and the other most developed countries, which refers to the existence of agglomeration economies.
Kirsi Mukkala
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