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The paper empirically examines labor market matching as a source of urban agglomeration economies. We work from the hypothesis that job turnover leads to tighter labor matches and estimate the relationship between urbanization and the job mobility of young men. Using a panel from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we find evidence that young men change jobs more frequently in their early career if they live in larger or in more educated urban areas. The sensitivity of the results to whether the young men were "movers" or "stayers" suggests the possible endogeneity of location. Copyright (c) Blackwell Publishing, Inc. 2008

This paper tests for scale economies for police departments operating in Los Angeles County. Intergovernmental sharing in providing police services prevails within the county, suggesting that scale economies exist in producing this public good. Empirical analysis here rejects the hypothesis that police output is produced under increasing returns, which would be an efficiency explanation for the large degree of consolidation found within the county. Copyright 1997 Western Economic Association International.

This paper estimates the determinants of manufacturing firm location in an urban area, concentrating on the impact property taxes have on firm location. This note, which estimates location probabilities, provides further evidence under an alternative methodology on the role local taxes play in determining intrametropolitan location.

This study tests for fiscal interdependence in the provision of a local public good—libraries in Los Angeles County. The authors present evidence that the reaction of libraries to fiscal externalities is dependent on the level of government producing the good. The authors find that the city-run libraries respond to neighboring output but the county system largely does not.