Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity

Arbeitspapier

The direct impact of local public goods on welfare is relatively easy to measure from land rents. However, the indirect effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model for the valuation of these effects. The model is estimated using data on transport infrastructure, commuting behavior, wages, land use and land rents for 3000 ZIP-codes in the Netherlands and for three levels of education. Welfare benefits are shown to differ sharply by workers' educational attainment.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4939

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Publicly Provided Goods: General ; National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock ; General Equilibrium and Welfare Economic Analysis of Regional Economies ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics ; Transportation Economics: General
• Thema: local public goods ; agglomeration ; spatial equilibrium ; residential sorting ; land rents

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Teulings, Coenraad N. ; Ossokina, Ioulia V. ; de Groot, Henri L.F.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (wo): Munich
• (wann): 2014

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/102233
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ