Complex Economic Activities Concentrate in Large Cities
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- Pierre-Alexandre Balland & Cristian Jara-Figueroa & Sergio G. Petralia & Mathieu P. A. Steijn & David L. Rigby & César A. Hidalgo, 2020. "Complex economic activities concentrate in large cities," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 4(3), pages 248-254, March.
- Pierre-Alexandre Balland & Cristian Jara-Figueroa & Sergio G Petralia & Mathieu P A Steijn & David L Rigby & César A. Hidalgo, 2020. "Complex economic activities concentrate in large cities," Post-Print hal-03058602, HAL.
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economic complexity; complexity; scaling; occupations; cities; agglomeration;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GEO-2018-07-30 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-HIS-2018-07-30 (Business, Economic & Financial History)
- NEP-INO-2018-07-30 (Innovation)
- NEP-TID-2018-07-30 (Technology & Industrial Dynamics)
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