Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20176 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 939
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
An analytically solvable model of new economic geography is developed. Acquisition of skills is costly for workers but it allows them to earn wages that are larger than those of the unskilled. Moreover, skills acquisition can be subsidized by a regional government. For large transport costs, firms spread more or less evenly between regions, their precise location being determined by the level of education subsidies. For low transport costs, firms agglomerate in one region. We also identify equilibria with partial agglomeration of firms. Finally, we show that the incentives to subsidy education largely depend on the level of transport costs.
Subjects: 
economic geography
education
subsidies
JEL: 
J51
R12
F15
F12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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