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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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  • PICARD, Pierre & TOULEMONDE, Eric, 2002. "Endogenous qualifications and firms'agglomeration," LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE 2002070, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
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    Keywords

    qualifications; firms’ location;

    JEL classification:

    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
    • R3 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location

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