Agglomeration, congestion, and regional unemployment disparities

Arbeitspapier

Regional labor markets are characterized by huge disparities of unemployment rates. Models of the New Economic Geography explain how disparities of regional goods markets endogenously arise but usually assume full employment. This paper discusses regional unemployment disparities by introducing a wage curve based on efficiency wages into the New Economic Geography. The model shows how disparities of regional goods and labor markets endogenously arise through the interplay of increasing returns to scale, transport costs, congestion costs, and migration. In result, the agglomeration pattern might be catastrophic or smooth depending on congestion costs. The transition between both patterns is smooth.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics ; No. 06-2011

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
• Thema: regional unemployment ; New Economic Geography ; core-periphery ; wage curve ; labor migration ; Regionale Arbeitslosigkeit ; Regionale Disparität ; Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt ; Neue ökonomische Geographie ; Effizienzlohn ; Kern-Peripherie-Beziehung ; Lohnkurve ; Regionale Arbeitsmobilität ; Agglomerationseffekt ; Bottleneck ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Zierahn, Ulrich
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Philipps-University Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
• (wo): Marburg
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/56547
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 20.09.2024, 08:20 MESZ