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Endogenous qualifications and firm's agglomeration

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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.

Author: Picard, Pierre M., Toulemonde, Eric
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0094-1190
Year: 2004
Cost Control Techniques, Cost (Economics), Costs (Economics), Cost control, Cost reduction

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Economic geography and the distribution of profits

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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.

Author: Picard, Pierre M., Thisse, Jacques-Francois, Toulemonde, Eric
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0094-1190
Year: 2004
Economic conditions, Distribution (Economics), Wealth, Distribution of wealth

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Acquisition of skills, labor subsidies, and agglomeration of firms

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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.

Author: Toulemonde, Eric
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0094-1190
Year: 2006
Government expenditures, Financial management, Models, Conglomerate corporations, Company investment, Investments, Study and teaching, Growth, Workers, Ability, Economic geography, Company growth, Government finance, Aptitude

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Subjects list: United States, Analysis, Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis
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