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Premature agglomeration? Two phases of development with spatial sorting
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Economics. CEPR, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4290-1889
Number of Authors: 22024 (English)In: Manchester School, ISSN 1463-6786, E-ISSN 1467-9957, Vol. 92, no 6, p. 636-662Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Clusters in the developing world do, to a large extent, attract low-educated individuals, and these clusters are in some cases, characterized by urbanization without industrialization. This contrasts starkly to clusters in advanced economies that attract high-skilled individuals and entrepreneurs. In this paper, we develop a model of agglomeration and spatial sorting that is consistent with these two types of different agglomeration processes in developed and developing countries. We show that a poor country that has an agglomeration with low skilled individuals, may get stuck in this equilibrium, but that free mobility of human capital from the outset nevertheless is superior from the perspective of total social welfare.

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2024. Vol. 92, no 6, p. 636-662
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agglomeration, development path, entrepreneurs, heterogeneous firms
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Economic Geography
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-231206DOI: 10.1111/manc.12484ISI: 001229386300001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85193975026OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-231206DiVA, id: diva2:1872434
Available from: 2024-06-18 Created: 2024-06-18 Last updated: 2025-02-21Bibliographically approved

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