Technological Progress and Economic Geography_x0003_

Konferenzbeitrag

New economic geography focuses on the impact of falling transport costs on the spatial distribution of activities. However, it disregards the role of technological innovations, which are central to modern economic growth, as well as the role of migration costs, which are a strong impediment to moving. We show that this neglect is unwarranted. Regardless of the level of transport costs, rising labor productivity fosters the agglomeration of activities, whereas falling transport costs do not affect the location of activities. When labor is heterogeneous, the number of workers residing in the more productive region increases by decreasing order of productive efficiency when labor productivity rises.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: 54th Congress of the European Regional Science Association: "Regional development & globalisation: Best practices", 26-29 August 2014, St. Petersburg, Russia

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
• Subject: new economic geography ; technological progress ; labor productivity ; migration costs ; labor heterogeneity

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Thisse, Jacques ; Tabuchi, Takatoshi ; Zhu, Xiwei
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): European Regional Science Association (ERSA)
• (where): Louvain-la-Neuve
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/124252
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET