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- Title
Knowledge–capital meets new economic geography.
- Authors
Egger, Peter; Gruber, Stefan; Larch, Mario; Pfaffermayr, Michael
- Abstract
This paper introduces multinational firms in a new economic geography model. There, unskilled labor mobility leads to less concentration of production than skilled labor mobility does. This is in line with empirical evidence that agglomeration of production in Europe is less pronounced than in the United States. The different patterns in (skilled versus unskilled) labor mobility together with the presence of multinational firms form one explanation of the actual differences in the spreading of industries in Europe as compared to the US
- Subjects
UNITED States; EUROPE; LABOR mobility; INTERNATIONAL business enterprises; LABOR supply; GEOGRAPHY; LABOR turnover; INDUSTRIAL concentration; SKILLED labor
- Publication
Annals of Regional Science, 2007, Vol 41, Issue 4, p857
- ISSN
0570-1864
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00168-007-0129-3