Labor pooling as an agglomeration factor: Evidence from the Brazilian Northeast in the 2002–2014 period

This is a pioneering study of Brazil of the importance of labor pooling to explain industrial agglomeration in the Northeast of Brazil, employing firm-level microdata. We applied the theoretical model proposed by Krugman (1991) (labor market pooling model) with the adaptations by Overman and Puga (2...

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Main Authors: Edilberto Tiago de Almeida, Roberta de Moraes Rocha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-05-01
Series:EconomiA
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1517758017300358