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Search, Sorting, and Urban Agglomeration

Journal of Labor Economics, 2001
Studies have suggested that urban agglomeration enhances productivity by facilitating the firm‐worker matching process. This article develops a model that formalizes this notion and demonstrates that, when firm capital and worker skill are complementary in production, urban agglomeration will tend to generate more efficient, yet segregated matches.
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Long-Run Urban Growth with Agglomeration Economies [PDF]

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 1987
It is widely recognized that agglomeration economies are a crucially important factor in explaining the existence and growth of urban areas, and therefore should be explicitly taken into consideration in long-run urban growth analysis. Once such economies are introduced, however, the urban economy tends to diverge from a steady state equilibrium and ...
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Urban unemployment, agglomeration and transportation policies

Journal of Public Economics, 2000
We study the role of unemployment in the context of the endogeneous formation of a monocentric city in which firms set efficiency wages to deter shirking. We first show that, in equilibrium, the employed locate at the vicinity of the city-center, the unemployed reside at the city-edge and firms set up in the city-center.
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Consumption variety and urban agglomeration

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2003
Abstract We consider two types of consumers, who prefer different classes of non-tradable goods. Each consumer’s utility increases with the number of different goods available, and increases more with an increase in the variety of goods he prefers.
Amihai Glazer, Mark Gradstein, Priya Ranjan   +2 more
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Heterogeneous firms, urban costs and agglomeration

International Journal of Economic Theory, 2017
AbstractThis paper explores how the interaction between firm heterogeneity, urban costs and transport costs determines spatial configuration across regions within a simple general equilibrium model. We shed light on how firm heterogeneity affects the centrifugal and centripetal forces and reshapes the spatial configuration of an urban space economy. We
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Urban Wage Inequality and Economic Agglomeration

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
This paper explorers the impact of interplay between transport costs and commuting costs on urban wage inequality and economic agglomeration within a new economic geography model. As in former study, we find that workers tend at the same time to agglomerate in order to limit transport costs of manufactured goods and to disperse in order to alleviate the
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Urban Agglomerations of China

2010
城市群的基本概念，可以概括为：在特定的地域范围内具有相当数量的不同性质、类型和等级规模的城市，依托一定的自然环境条件，以一个或两个超大或特大城市作为地区经济的核心，借助于现代化的交通工具和综合运输网的通达性，以及高度发达的信息网络，发生与发展着城市个体之间的内在联系，共同构成一个相对完整的城市“集合体” 　　《中国城市群》不仅总结分析了我国城市群生长发育的因素、空间扩展过程与类型等，而且对它们的演变规律、发展个性与共性特征作了比较全面的分析论证，达到了一定的深度。作者博采众家之长，参阅与引用了许多中外代表性著作，综合地概括了城市群区域发展的动态特征以及城市与区域发展的相互关系，表达了不少新颖的观点。同时，本书对我国六大超大型城市群（沪宁杭、京津唐、珠江三角洲、山东半岛、辽宁中部与四川盆地 ...
Chan, RCK, Yao, SM, Zhu, YM
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Agglomeration Economies: Localization or Urbanization?

Urban Studies, 1988
I estimate localization and urbanization economies with a methodology and data different from those of Henderson and Nakamura. After demonstrating the problems associated with using a single agglomeration variable, I present my estimates. As Nakamura found for Japanese cities, I find evidence of both localization economies and urbanization economies ...
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Urban Agglomerations in the USSR

Soviet Geography, 1964
AbstractThe author discusses urban agglomerations in terms of the commuting ties that exist between the central city and its satellites. He also proposes a study of wide-ranging associations of urban places that are linked by episodic, but consistent travel for business and cultural purposes.
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Greenery as a mitigation and adaptation strategy to urban heat

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2021
Nyuk Hien Wong, Chun Liang Tan, Dionysia Kolokotsa   +2 more
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