کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
971633 932369 2008 19 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
New economic geography with heterogeneous preferences: An explanation of segregation
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
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New economic geography with heterogeneous preferences: An explanation of segregation
چکیده انگلیسی

The Tiebout hypothesis (residential choice depends solely on local public goods) is extensively applied to explain geographic segregation, and the related literature finds that residents are segregated according to their heterogeneous preferences for public goods. This paper further examines the heterogeneous preferences for private goods in a spatial economy without public goods. Specifically, we employ a new economic geography framework in which the heterogeneous preferences of mobile workers on manufactured goods are incorporated. The rigorous general equilibrium analysis conducted here shows that the increasing-returns technology and monopolistic competition form a mechanism endogenously leading to persistent residential segregation. There is an evolving path with decreasing transport costs in which the two types of mobile workers are segregated, while two industries evolve from dispersion to agglomeration.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Urban Economics - Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2008, Pages 306–324
نویسندگان
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