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

This article reviews key recent literature on the effects of trade liberalization on poverty in
developing countries and asks whether our knowledge has changed significantly over a …

We investigate the role of skill complementarities in production and mobility across cities.
The nature of the complementarities determines the equilibrium skill distribution across …

We develop a framework that integrates natural advantage, agglomeration economies and
firm selection to explain why large cities are both more productive and more unequal than …

We estimate the respective importance of spatial sorting and agglomeration economies in
explaining the urban wage premium for workers with different sets of skills. Sorting is the …

We present a framework for studying the relation between the distributions of income and
house prices that is based on an assignment model where households are heterogeneous …

In this paper, we present a spatial equilibrium model where search frictions hinder the
immediate reallocation of workers both within and across local labor markets. Because of …

We study spatial changes in labour market inequality for US states and MSAs using Census
and American Community Survey data between 1980 and 2010. We report evidence of …

This paper combines a unique collection of Mexican microdata with a new empirical strategy
for identifying the causal effects of import tariff cuts to present evidence on a new …

ABSTRACT Over the Great Recession, the employment rate in some US cities declined by
more than twice the aggregate decline. To what extent did the ability to migrate insure …