Smart Café Cities: Testing human capital externalities in the Boston metropolitan area

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 86-111

  Fu, Shihe ^a  

^a SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Hedonic wage model; Human capital externalities; Jacobs externalities; Labor market agglomeration; Marshallian externalities; Spatial attenuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751104168     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2006.06.002     Document Type: Article

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