In policy debates related to innovation potential, the limited mobility from academia to industry is often explained by the supposed mismatch of skills needed in these different settings. We contribute to this debate by (1) examining the attitudes of Flemish doctoral candidates towards careers...

We consider an economic geography model in which all firms and workers are mobile, but the agglomeration of firms and workers within a region generates urban costs. We show that industries with high transport costs tend to be more agglomerated than industries with low transport costs. This is to...

The inhability of the agricultural sector to maintain the relative income level of the population devoted to the sector has been called the “farm problem” in the literature. The analytical wok on the farm problem” has been concentrated on the U.S. case. However, there is clear evidence...