Labor Market Density and Increasing Returns to Scale: How Strong is the Evidence?

Chen, Yu-Chin; Weisberger, Noah; Wong, Edwin S.

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“…One is due to Antonio Ciccone and Robert E. Hall (1996), who use state-level data and estimate the effect at 6 percent. This was recently updated by Yu-chin Chen and Noah Weisberger (2007), who use metro-level as well as state-level industry data. These researchers seek to distinguish between agglomeration effects, for which the evidence is robust, and the balance of agglomeration and congestion effects, which the literature refers to as "net increasing returns to scale," for which the evidence is much weaker.…”

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A Review of Scott E. Page's The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

Ioannides

2010

Journal of Economic Literature

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This assessment of Scott Page's The Difference (Princeton University Press, 2007) emphasizes the depth and breadth of the book's coverage and arguments and checks them against existing empirical evidence, when available. It argues that the book navigates artfully between being a “manifesto” for diversity and rigorous science writing while at the same time marketing economic science in new ways. The review welcomes the book's popularization of richer aspects of everyday decision making, individual and collective, and its making an excellent case for the social significance of abstract economic theorizing, especially about problem solving. It praises the book's lively interpretations of statistical tools of decision making by means of enticing narratives. The book's rhetoric urges us to move beyond accepting diversity as a matter of taste, or even because of its beneficial effects on the “production function,” and ultimately adopts its powerful logic. It speculates that the book's true impact will likely come after thorough empirical research. In empirical endeavors, issues of definition, especially of identity and of measurement, and evaluation of policies that would enhance diversity would be decisive. In democratic societies, policies may pose new dilemmas as they benefit from public interest in overcoming the accumulation of past disadvantages. (JEL D23, Z13)

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Section: The Empirical Evidencementioning

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A Review of Scott E. Page's The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

Ioannides

2010

Journal of Economic Literature

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Labor Market Density and Increasing Returns to Scale: How Strong is the Evidence?

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A Review of Scott E. Page's The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

A Review of Scott E. Page's The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

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