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Migration and Regional Adjustment to Asymmetric Shocks in Transition Economies

Fidrmuc, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Does migration facilitate regional adjustment to idiosyncratic shocks? The evidence from post-communist economies … indicates that the efficacy of migration in reducing inter-regional unemployment and wage differentials has in fact been rather … low. High wages appear to encourage - and, similarly, high unemployment tends to discourage - overall migration – inbound …

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Why Do People Still Live In East Germany?

Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

able to explain the downward trend in east to west migration using wage and unemployment information. Convergence in hourly …

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Labour Mobility During Transition: Evidence from the Czech Republic

Fidrmuc, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

central planning to a market economy. I show that while the intensity of migration is low and has even fallen during the … effect in facilitating labour market adjustment to employment shocks. Using aggregate inter-regional migration data and … survey data on past and prospective migration and the willingness to move, I find that economic factosr play little role in …

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Rising Trade Costs? Agglomeration and Trade with Endogenous Transaction Costs

Duranton, Gilles; Storper, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

While transport costs have fallen, the empirical evidence also points at rising total trade costs. In a model of industry location with endogenous transaction costs, we show how and under which conditions a decline in transport costs can lead to an increase in the total cost of trade.

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The world is not yet flat: Transport costs matter!

Behrens, Kristian; Bougna, Théophile; Brown, W. Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We provide evidence for the effects of changes in transport costs, international trade exposure, and input-output linkages on the geographical concentration of Canadian manufacturing industries. Increasing transport costs, stronger import competition, and the spreading out of upstream suppliers...

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What are Falling Transport Costs doing to Spatial Concentration Across US Counties?

Desmet, Klaus; Fafchamps, Marcel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Theory is divided on whether falling transport costs lead to more or less spatial concentration of economic activity. Using US county-level data we find that aggregate employment became more concentrated between 1972-92. This aggregate picture hides important differences between sectors though....

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Agglomeration and Economic Geography

Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Peaks and troughs in the spatial distributions of population, employment and wealth are a universal phenomenon in search of a general theory. Such spatial imbalances have two possible explanations. In the first, uneven economic development can be seen as the result of the uneven distribution of...

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Inter-regional and International Trade: Seventy Years After Ohlin

Behrens, Kristian; Gaigné, Carl; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We study the impact of falling trade costs and falling national transport costs on the economic geography of countries involved in an integration process. Two regions between which labour is mobile form each country, but there is no international factor mobility. Commodities can be traded both...

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Regional Specialization and Transport Costs

Tabuchi, Takatoshi; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

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...

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Are Compact Cities Environmentally Friendly?

Gaigné, Carl; Riou, Stéphane; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

There is a large consensus among international institutions and national governments to favor urban-containment policies - the compact city - as a way to improve the ecological performance of the urban system. This approach overlooks a fundamental fact: what matters for the ecological outcome of...

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