TY - JOUR
T1 - Firms agglomeration and unions
AU - Picard, P.M.
AU - Toulemonde, E.
N1 - Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2006/4/1
Y1 - 2006/4/1
N2 - Economic geography models predict the agglomeration of manufacturing activies only if the workforce is mobile. Still, as the E.U.'s experience shows, core-periphery patterns exist even though the workforce is rather immobile. The paper provides a theoretical explanation for such core-periphery patterns through the effect that unions have on firms' incentive to agglomerate in a region. The paper offers fully analytical results about location equilibria and some interesting welfare properties. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
AB - Economic geography models predict the agglomeration of manufacturing activies only if the workforce is mobile. Still, as the E.U.'s experience shows, core-periphery patterns exist even though the workforce is rather immobile. The paper provides a theoretical explanation for such core-periphery patterns through the effect that unions have on firms' incentive to agglomerate in a region. The paper offers fully analytical results about location equilibria and some interesting welfare properties. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2004.10.009
DO - 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2004.10.009
M3 - Article
VL - 50
SP - 669
EP - 694
JO - European Economic Review
JF - European Economic Review
ER -