Add to ORKGIn "Agglomeration Economies: The Spark That Ignites a City?" Satyajit Chatterjee discusses his research, which questions this belief. He finds that while agglomeration economies are important, they're not the most important factor in the spatial concentration of employment. The combined effects of factors unrelated to agglomeration economies, such as the availability of natural resources and local economic policies, appear to account for the bulk of the spatial concentration of U.S. employment.Employment (Economic theory)
Economists have long recognized the importance of urban areas as focal points of economic production...
Regional economists, planners, and geographers have for many years drawn a useful distinction in cha...
The concept of agglomeration economies, first considered in a systematic (though rather restrictive)...
Densely populated areas tend to be more productive. Of course, the cost of living and producing in t...
1Many thanks to Shannon Mail and Jim DiSalvo for timely research assistance and to Albert Saiz and J...
The economic geography literature distinguishes between two types of reasons for economic agglomerat...
More than 80 percent of Americans live in urban areas, and cities are the source of much of the coun...
Economic activities are not concentrated on the head of a pin, nor are they spread evenly over a fea...
"New"economic geography theory, and the development of innovative methods of analysis have renewed i...
Empirical research on cities starts with a spatial equilibrium condition: workers and firms are assu...
Peaks and troughs in the spatial distributions of population, employment and wealth are a universal ...
Peaks and troughs in the spatial distributions of population, employment and wealth are a universal ...
Since the 1980s spatial inequality within countries has been increasing. This thesis focuses in thre...
There is a long history of research about agglomeration economies in economic geography and regional...
This paper examines the degree of geographic concentration of employment in New Zealand, using summa...
Economists have long recognized the importance of urban areas as focal points of economic production...
Regional economists, planners, and geographers have for many years drawn a useful distinction in cha...
The concept of agglomeration economies, first considered in a systematic (though rather restrictive)...
Densely populated areas tend to be more productive. Of course, the cost of living and producing in t...
1Many thanks to Shannon Mail and Jim DiSalvo for timely research assistance and to Albert Saiz and J...
The economic geography literature distinguishes between two types of reasons for economic agglomerat...
More than 80 percent of Americans live in urban areas, and cities are the source of much of the coun...
Economic activities are not concentrated on the head of a pin, nor are they spread evenly over a fea...
"New"economic geography theory, and the development of innovative methods of analysis have renewed i...
Empirical research on cities starts with a spatial equilibrium condition: workers and firms are assu...
Peaks and troughs in the spatial distributions of population, employment and wealth are a universal ...
Peaks and troughs in the spatial distributions of population, employment and wealth are a universal ...
Since the 1980s spatial inequality within countries has been increasing. This thesis focuses in thre...
There is a long history of research about agglomeration economies in economic geography and regional...
This paper examines the degree of geographic concentration of employment in New Zealand, using summa...
Economists have long recognized the importance of urban areas as focal points of economic production...
Regional economists, planners, and geographers have for many years drawn a useful distinction in cha...
The concept of agglomeration economies, first considered in a systematic (though rather restrictive)...