Cities, Skills and Regional Change;Les grandes villes, les compétences et l'évolution régionale

Regional Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 7-43

  Glaeser, Edward L ^a,b   Ponzetto, Giacomo A M ^c   Tobio, Kristina ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microeconomics; Regional economics; Urban economics

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC POLICY; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN CAPITAL; MICROECONOMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRODUCTIVITY; REGIONAL ECONOMY; SPILLOVER EFFECT; URBAN ECONOMY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84921025811     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2012.674637     Document Type: Article

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