Optimum product variety in urban areas

Hobson, Paul A. R.

doi:10.1016/0094-1190(87)90040-4

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“…Agglomeration economies have also been considered to be generated by preference for product variety, which may be divided into two types: variety in production; and variety in consumption (for studies of product variety, see Hobson, 1987;Abdel-Rahman and Fujita, 1990;and Henderson and Abdel-Rahman, 1991; for consumption variety, see Rivera-Batiz, 1988;and Ogawa, 1998).…”

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Product Variety and Sector-specific Unemployment

Nishimori

1999

Urban Studies

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In this paper, we combine the Harris-Todaro wage differential and unemployment with product variety. We analyse how city size is determined and how it relates to unemployment. Our main conclusion is as follows. If the government or the city authority executes the policy leading to growth in the urban population, then the unemployment rate decreases. Furthermore, in this case, even the number of the unemployed can decrease, although the city size increases.

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