کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
971973 932434 2009 13 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Labor pooling in R&D intensive industries
کلمات کلیدی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Labor pooling in R&D intensive industries
چکیده انگلیسی

We investigate the interplay between firms' R&D decisions and local labor market competition and how this influences equilibrium location choices and welfare. Firms engage in risky R&D activities that generate stochastic product and derived labor demand. We show that firms located in a cluster tend to invest more and take more risk in R&D compared to spatially separated firms. Most interestingly, ex-ante symmetric firms choose asymmetric R&D investments when located in a cluster. This creates an additional welfare benefit from agglomeration, because firms choose a more efficient, diversified portfolio of R&D projects at the industry level.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Urban Economics - Volume 65, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 99–111
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