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Title: Cities, Skills and Regional Change

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2014

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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2012.674637

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Abstract: Glaeser E. L., Ponzetto G. A. M. and Tobio K. Cities, skills and regional change, Regional Studies. One approach to urban areas emphasizes the existence of certain immutable relationships, such as Zipf's or Gibrat's law. An alternative view is that urban change reflects individual responses to changing tastes or technologies. This paper examines almost 200 years of regional change in the United States and finds that few, if any, growth relationships remain constant, including Gibrat's law. Education does a reasonable job of explaining urban resilience in recent decades, but it does not seem to predict county growth a century ago. After reviewing this evidence, a simple model of regional change is presented and estimated, where education increases the level of entrepreneurship. Human capital spillovers occur at the city level because skilled workers produce more product varieties and thereby increase labour demand. It is found that skills are associated with growth in productivity or ...

Url: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00343404.2012.674637

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Authors: Glaeser, Edward L.; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; Tobio, Kristina

Periodical (Full): Regional Studies

Issue: 1

Volume: 48

Pages: 7-43

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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