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Agglomeration, congestion, and regional unemployment disparities

Zierahn, Ulrich Theodor

Abstract Regional labor markets are characterized by huge disparities between unemployment rates. Models of the New Economic Geography explain how disparities between 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 between regional goods and labor markets endogenously arise through the interplay of increasing returns to scale, transport costs, congestion costs, and migration. The level and stability of regional labor market disparities depends on the extend of labor market frictions.

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Agglomeration, congestion, and regional unemployment disparities

Zierahn, Ulrich Theodor

Abstract Regional labor markets are characterized by huge disparities between unemployment rates. Models of the New Economic Geography explain how disparities between 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 between regional goods and labor markets endogenously arise through the interplay of increasing returns to scale, transport costs, congestion costs, and migration. The level and stability of regional labor market disparities depends on the extend of labor market frictions.

Agglomeration, congestion, and regional unemployment disparities

Zierahn, Ulrich Theodor

Abstract Regional labor markets are characterized by huge disparities between unemployment rates. Models of the New Economic Geography explain how disparities between 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 between regional goods and labor markets endogenously arise through the interplay of increasing returns to scale, transport costs, congestion costs, and migration. The level and stability of regional labor market disparities depends on the extend of labor market frictions.

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Title:

Agglomeration, congestion, and regional unemployment disparities

Contributors:

Zierahn, Ulrich Theodor (author)

Published in:

The Annals of Regional Science ; 51

Publication date:

2013

ISSN:

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-013-0555-3

Type of media:

Article (Journal)

Type of material:

Print

Language:

English

Keywords:

Regionalökonomik , Zeitschrift , Kommunalpolitik , Stadtentwicklung , Umweltforschung , Regionalforschung , Raumordnung , Umweltwissenschaften , Regionalwissenschaft , Regionalentwicklung , Städtebau

Classification:

BKL: 74.72 Stadtplanung, kommunale Planung / 83.64 Regionalwirtschaft / 74.12 Stadtgeographie, Siedlungsgeographie
Local classification TIB: 770/3010

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