Endogenous qualifications and firms' agglomeration

Picard, Pierre;Toulemonde, Eric
(2002)

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  • Picard, PierreUCLouvain
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This paper analyzes firms' location when workers endogenously choose to qualify for professional skills but when they remain uncertain about the potential match between their personal abilities and/or affinities and the firms' specific production tasks. By qualifying in a region where firms agglomerate, workers benefit from higher prospects of good match. At the equilibrium, we show that firms may locate in a single cluster, symmetric clusters or even asymmetric clusters. Comparative statics with respect to product market demand and labor supply parameters are provided.
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Picard, P., & Toulemonde, E. (2002). Endogenous qualifications and firms’ agglomeration (CORE Discussion Papers 2002/70). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/128391