This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and
innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation …

Large cities produce more output per capita than small cities. This higher productivity may
occur because more talented individuals sort into large cities, because large cities select …

We estimate the local spillovers from research university activity in a sample of urban
counties. Our approach uses the interaction between university endowment values and …

This paper is concerned with the urban wage premium and addresses two central issues
about which the field has not yet reached a consensus: first, the extent to which sorting of …

This paper distinguishes between the human capital and signaling theories by estimating
the earnings return to a high school diploma. Unlike most indicators of education (eg, a year …

We evaluate the effects of state-provided financial incentives for biotech companies, which
are part of a growing trend of placed-based policies designed to spur innovation clusters …

Previous research suggests that the local stock of human capital creates positive
externalities within local labor markets and plays an important role in regional economic …

The reduction of early school leaving to less than 10 percent of the relevant population by
2020 is a headline target in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the …

The aim of this paper is to identify the determinants of the geographical mobility of skilled
individuals, such as inventors, across European regions. Among a large number of …

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