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Title: Technological Progress and Economic Geography

Author(s): Takatoshi Tabuchi, Jacques-François Thisse and Xiwei Zhu

Publication Date: March 2014

Keyword(s): labor heterogeneity, labor productivity, migration costs, new economic geography and technological progress

Programme Area(s): International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: New economic geography focuses on the impact of falling transport costs on the spatial distribution of activities. However, it disregards the role of technological innovations, which are central to modern economic growth, as well as the role of migration costs, which are a strong impediment to moving. We show that this neglect is unwarranted. Regardless of the level of transport costs, rising labor productivity fosters the agglomeration of activities, whereas falling transport costs do not affect the location of activities. When labor is heterogeneous, the number of workers residing in the more productive region increases by decreasing order of productive efficiency when labor productivity rises.

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Tabuchi, T, Thisse, J and Zhu, X. 2014. 'Technological Progress and Economic Geography'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=9901