The intervention of local governments in the labor market is the cornerstone of stable employment and economic development in China. This paper combines the office addresses of 4,491 listed companies from 2008 to 2020 and the geographic information before and after the relocation of the...

In this paper, I examine the relationship between increasing returns to scale and the geographic concentration of economic activity. Using data on U.S. counties, I estimate the structural parameters of the Krugman (1991) model of economic geography. The specification I use, which is derived from...