Endogenous qualifications and firm's agglomeration
Article Abstract:
Firms benefit from costs reductions through the effects of economies of agglomeration when they locate together. Workers endogenously choose to qualify for professional skills where firms agglomerate and thus reap benefits from higher prospects of good match.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0094-1190
Year: 2004
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Economic geography and the distribution of profits
Article Abstract:
The combination of imperfect competition and firm's indivisibility that matters for the formation of agglomeration in economic geography is presented. The assumption of free entry must be abandoned to account for the profits and their distribution.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0094-1190
Year: 2004
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Acquisition of skills, labor subsidies, and agglomeration of firms
Article Abstract:
Influence of skill acquisition investment by workers on corporate agglomeration in an economic geography model is examined. Influence of transportation cost on labor subsidies is also analyzed.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0094-1190
Year: 2006
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Labor and capital income taxation, fiscal competition, and the distribution of wealth. Why do governments subsidise investment and not employment?
- Abstracts: Externalities and optimal taxation. Tax evasion and the optimum general income tax. Tax evasion and optimal commodity taxation
- Abstracts: On the dynamics of growth and fiscal policy with redistributive transfers. Evidence on the political economy of the urbanization process
- Abstracts: Population concentration, urbanization and demographic transition. Urbanization and growth
- Abstracts: Optimum taxation and allocation of time. Tax bases, tax rates and the elasticity of reported income. On the atmosphere externality and corrective taxes