全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Cities, Skills, and Regional Change

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w16934
来源ID	Working Paper 16934
	Cities, Skills, and Regional Change
	Edward L. Glaeser; Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto; Kristina Tobio
发表日期	2011-04-07
出版年	2011
语种	英语
摘要	One approach to urban areas emphasizes the existence of certain immutable relationships, such as Zipf's or Gibrat's Law. An alternative view is that urban change reflects individual responses to changing tastes or technologies. This paper examines almost 200 years of regional change in the U.S. and finds that few, if any, growth relationships remain constant, including Gibrat's Law. Education does a reasonable job of explaining urban resilience in recent decades, but does not seem to predict county growth a century ago. After reviewing this evidence, we present and estimate a simple model of regional change, where education increases the level of entrepreneurship. Human capital spillovers occur at the city level because skilled workers produce more product varieties and thereby increase labor demand. We find that skills are associated with growth in productivity or entrepreneurship, not with growth in quality of life, at least outside of the West. We also find that skills seem to have depressed housing supply growth in the West, but not in other regions, which supports the view that educated residents in that region have fought for tougher land-use controls. We also present evidence that skills have had a disproportionately large impact on unemployment during the current recession.
主题	Microeconomics ; Regional and Urban Economics
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w16934
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574609
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Edward L. Glaeser,Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto,Kristina Tobio. Cities, Skills, and Regional Change. 2011.

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