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Industry location and wages: The role of market size and accessibility in trading networks

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  • Zofio, Jose L.
  • Behrens, Kristian
  • Barbero, Javier

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We investigate the geographical distribution of economic activity and wages in a general equilibrium model with many asymmetric regions and costly trade. As shown by extensive simulations on random networks, local market size better explains a region?s industry share, whereas accessibility better explains a region?s wage. The correlation between equilibrium wages and industry shares is low, thus suggesting that the two variables operate largely independently. The model replicates well the spatial distribution of industry using Spanish data, yet overpredict changes in that distribution due to changes in 'generalized transport costs'. The latter had only small impacts on changes in the geographical distribution of economic activity in Spain from 1980 to 2007.

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  • Zofio, Jose L. & Behrens, Kristian & Barbero, Javier, 2015. "Industry location and wages: The role of market size and accessibility in trading networks," CEPR Discussion Papers 10411, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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    Keywords

    Size; Industry location; Trading networks; Wages; Generalized transport costs;
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    JEL classification:

    • C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computational Techniques
    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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