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ENDOGENOUS QUALIFICATIONS AND FIRMS' AGGLOMERATION


Category: Economic Theory
Economic Geography
Monday 26th August 2002, 14:30 - 16:00, Room: 1.8
Session Chair(s): Andre De Palma, THEMA - Universite de Cergy Pontoise, FRANCE

Presenter(s): Picard, Pierre M

Co-Author(s): Toulemonde, Eric

Keyword(s): Cluster

JEL(s): J24, J41, R31

Abstract:

This paper analyzes firms' location decision 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.


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