TY - JOUR
T1 - Endogenous qualifications and firms' agglomeration
AU - Picard, P.M.
AU - Toulemonde, E.
N1 - Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2004/5/1
Y1 - 2004/5/1
N2 - This paper analyzes firms' location when workers endogenously choose to qualify for professional skills but when they remain uncertain about the potential match between their personal abilities and/or affinities and the firms' specific production tasks. By qualifying in a region where firms agglomerate, workers benefit from higher prospects of good match. At the equilibrium, we show that firms may locate in a single cluster, symmetric clusters or even asymmetric clusters. Comparative statics with respect to product market demand and labor supply parameters are provided. © 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
AB - This paper analyzes firms' location when workers endogenously choose to qualify for professional skills but when they remain uncertain about the potential match between their personal abilities and/or affinities and the firms' specific production tasks. By qualifying in a region where firms agglomerate, workers benefit from higher prospects of good match. At the equilibrium, we show that firms may locate in a single cluster, symmetric clusters or even asymmetric clusters. Comparative statics with respect to product market demand and labor supply parameters are provided. © 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0094-1190(03)00075-5
DO - 10.1016/S0094-1190(03)00075-5
M3 - Article
VL - 55
SP - 458
EP - 477
JO - Journal of Urban Economics
JF - Journal of Urban Economics
ER -