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Carl Gaigné and Stéphane Riou
 
''Technical change and agglomeration''
( 2007, Vol. 18 No.3 )
 
 
Although economic historians consider technical change to be a significant factor explaining the evolution of the spatial organization of an economy, economic geography still fails to address this important issue. By developing a simple two-region general equilibrium model under monopolistic competition, we show that agglomeration is triggered by technological progress shifting production towards more skill intensive techniques.
 
 
Keywords: Skill-biased change economic geography
JEL: R1 - General Regional Economics (includes Regional Data)
F1 - Trade: General
 
Manuscript Received : Apr 03 2007 Manuscript Accepted : Apr 10 2007

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