Sanmenxia Industrial Agglomeration Area was awarded 3 million yuan ($449,553) by the People's Government of Henan Province for its promotion from a one-star to a two-star industrial cluster on July 11 ...

Given the serious unemployment problems in many countries around the world, it is very important to understand the mechanisms of "risk-sharing" and "matching" that are at work in the labor market, ...

This paper empirically investigates the effect of industrial agglomeration through labor market pooling. Theoretical literature has shown that labor market pooling in industrial agglomeration can ...

The new model could help policy-makers understand how the spatial distribution of industrial firms and their impact on the local environment affect regional development Regional and urban economics ...

We show in the context of a new economic geography model that when labor is heterogenous trade liberalization may lead to industrial agglomeration and interregional trade. Labor heterogeneity gives ...