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key insight that emerges is that the interaction between agglomeration economies and comparative advantage involves a … comparative advantage in sectors governed by this force whilst the impact of agglomeration economies is enhanced by trade cost … small economies is not only shaped by the primitives that determine agglomeration economies and comparative advantage but …
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cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote … a generalised version of a tractable firm selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the …
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Using administrative data for West Germany, this paper investigates whether part of the urban wage premium stems from fierce competition in thick labour markets. We first establish that employers possess less wage-setting power in denser markets. Local differences in wage-setting power predict...
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This paper examines the role of regional aggregation in measuring agglomeration externalities. Using Dutch … agglomeration externalities at a higher spatial scale. We quantify subgroup differentials and find that high-educated workers have … agglomeration externalities twice as high as low-educated workers. We show that workers who lose their job in denser LLMs experience …
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We examine how city size affect wage levels of cities (agglomeration externality) and how it influence surrounding … confirms the existence of agglomeration economy within cities. We also find significant differences in both the direct and …
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We propose an integrated framework to discuss the empirical literature on the local determinants of agglomeration … developing economies. We finally provide a discussion of attempts to identify and quantify specific agglomeration mechanisms …
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How much of the geographic clustering of economic activity is attributable to agglomeration spillovers as opposed to … attenuated, suggesting the presence of important agglomeration spillovers. Over a 50 year horizon, I estimate that at least one … removing control counties with environmental regulations.I also find small local agglomeration effects from smaller dam …
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and city population. This paper embeds a "black box" agglomeration economy within a more neoclassical general equilibrium … and wages move in the same direction under neo-classical assumptions, agglomeration economies in production, congestion in … variables, although some of these effects are ambiguous in the production agglomeration model. If natural advantage and housing …
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