Knowledge-capital meets new economic geography

Arbeitspapier

We incorporate the now standard knowledge-capital model of multinational firms in a new economic geography setting. The theoretical predictions of our model suggest that 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 among European nations is less pronounced than among US regions. Our model shows that the different patterns in labor mobility can explain actual differences in the spreading of industries. According to our welfare analysis, trade liberalization is likely Pareto-improving for a larger (smaller) country with mobile unskilled (skilled) labor. In the supplement, we investigate the sensitivity of our results in several respects.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 1432

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Multinational Firms; International Business ; Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation ; General Equilibrium and Welfare Economic Analysis of Regional Economies ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
• Thema: knowledge-capital model ; new economic geography ; unskilled labor mobility ; skilled labor mobility ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Wissen ; Neue ökonomische Geographie ; Internationale Arbeitsmobilität ; Ungelernte Arbeitskräfte ; Facharbeiter ; Kern-Peripherie-Beziehung ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Egger, Peter ; Gruber, Stefan ; Larch, Mario ; Pfaffermayr, Michael
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (wo): Munich
• (wann): 2005

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18796
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ