Endogenous qualifications and firms'agglomeration

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Endogenous qualifications and firms'agglomeration

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PICARD, Pierre
TOULEMONDE, Eric

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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.

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Paper provided by Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) in its series CORE Discussion Papers with number 2002070.

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- Picard, Pierre M. & Toulemonde, Eric, 2004. "Endogenous qualifications and firms' agglomeration," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 55(3), pages 458-477, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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- P Picard & E Toulemonde, 2001. "Endogenous Qualifications and Firms' Agglomeration," The School of Economics Discussion Paper Series 0105, Economics, The University of Manchester.

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