Abstract From 1940 to 1990, a 10% increase in a metropolitan area's concentration of
college-educated residents was associated with a 0.8% increase in subsequent …

This paper models and estimates net urban agglomeration economies for cities. Economic
models of cities postulate an inverted U shape of real income per worker against city …

Cities are physical structures, but the modern literature on urban economic development
rarely acknowledges that fact. The elasticity of housing supply helps determine the extent to …

This article attempts to improve our understanding of the causal processes that contribute to
intergenerational immobility by exploiting historical changes in compulsory schooling laws …

The identification of aggregate human-capital externalities is still not fully understood. The
existing (Mincerian) approach confounds positive externalities with wage changes due to a …

This paper uses NUTS3 sub-regional data for Great Britain to analyse the determinants of
spatial variations in income and productivity. We decompose the spatial variation of …

New economic geography (NEG) stresses the role of various types of linkages as
agglomeration forces. We show that a typical NEG model can be used to design an …

A partir de una revisión de la literatura sobre las economías de aglomeración se resaltan los
aportes de diversos trabajos teóricos y empíricos, en particular, los que se relacionan con …

In this paper we study the dynamics of local employment growth in West Germany from 1980
to 2001. Using dynamic panel techniques, we analyse the timing of the impact of diversity …

Quality of life is increasingly becoming a concept researched empirically and theoretically in
the field of economics. In urban economics in particular, this increasing interest stems mainly …