作者：McCormick, B; Wahba, J
作者单位：University of Southampton
摘要：This paper develops the idea that wage premium jobs cause nearby agglomeration. We show that spatial mobility costs enable wage premiums to cause agglomeration, whereas previous studies crucially assume that wage premium jobs are allocated to favor nearby residents (Harris-Todaro (H-T)). This extends the idea to LDCs, such as Egypt, Ethiopia and Kenya, which have had centralized job allocation mechanisms that do not give a search advantage to locating near public jobs. We show that high public...
作者：Truett, LJ; Truett, DB
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
摘要：This study investigates the substitutability relationships among capital, labor, and imported inputs for South Africa, utilizing the estimates obtained from an aggregate cost function. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that capital is a substitute for both domestic labor and imports, but that labor and imports are complementary inputs. This latter result suggests that relaxing South African trade restrictions may have a positive impact, in both the long and the short run, on the d...
