Agglomeration and innovation

G Carlino, WR Kerr - Handbook of regional and urban economics, 2015 - Elsevier
This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and
innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation …

Spatial sorting and inequality

R Diamond, C Gaubert - Annual Review of Economics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The spatial segregation of college-educated and non-college-educated workers between
commuting zones in the United States has steadily grown since 1980. We summarize prior …

Brahmin left versus merchant right: Changing political cleavages in 21 western democracies, 1948–2020

A Gethin, C Martínez-Toledano… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This article sheds new light on the long-run evolution of political cleavages in 21 Western
democracies. We exploit a new database on the socioeconomic determinants of the vote …

The empirics of agglomeration economies

PP Combes, L Gobillon - Handbook of regional and urban economics, 2015 - Elsevier
We propose an integrated framework to discuss the empirical literature on the local
determinants of agglomeration effects. We start by presenting the theoretical mechanisms …

Innovation and top income inequality

P Aghion, U Akcigit, A Bergeaud… - The Review of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
In this article, we use cross-state panel and cross-US commuting-zone data to look at the
relationship between innovation, top income inequality and social mobility. We find positive …

[图书][B] The coming of neo-feudalism: A warning to the global middle class

J Kotkin - 2023 - books.google.com
Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are
inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth …

Learning by working in big cities

JDL Roca, D Puga - The Review of Economic Studies, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Individual earnings are higher in bigger cities. We consider three reasons: spatial sorting of
initially more productive workers, static advantages from workers' current location, and …

[图书][B] The rise of the creative class--revisited: Revised and expanded

R Florida - 2014 - books.google.com
Initially published in 2002, The Rise of the Creative Class quickly achieved classic status for
its identification of forces then only beginning to reshape our economy, geography, and …

Optimal spatial policies, geography, and sorting

PD Fajgelbaum, C Gaubert - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We study optimal spatial policies in a quantitative trade and geography framework with
spillovers and spatial sorting of heterogeneous workers. We characterize the spatial …

Urbanization and income inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

I Sulemana, E Nketiah-Amponsah, EA Codjoe… - Sustainable cities and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract According to the World Bank, a burgeoning proportion of Africans now live in urban
areas. The United Nations notes that the fastest urbanizing regions in the world are Africa …