Competition and Human Capital Accumulation: A Theory of Interregional Specialization and Trade

By Julio J. Rotemberg, Garth Saloner. 2015

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Regional disadvantage? Employee non-compete agreements and brain drain (2014, background): “The benefits of labor pooling are often ttributed to the interorganizational mobility of workers, which not nly facilitates better job matching (Helsley and Strange, 1990) but lso encourages individual investment in human capital (Diamond t al., 1990; Rotemberg and Saloner, 2000) given the expanded ”
Location Matters: Where We Have Been and Where We Might Go in Agglomeration Research (2008, background): “McCann, Folta / Location Matters 533 (1991), AnnaLee Saxenian (1994), and Michael Porter (1998a, 1998b), in particular, have championed the agglomeration concept in influential books or articles.”
The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms (2014, background): “Because rms proximity to one another shields workers from the vicissitudes of rm-speci c shocks, workers in locations in which other rms stand ready to 10For FDI theoretical literature in this area, see, for example, Krugman (1991), Venables (1996), and Markusen and Venables (2000).”
Agglomeration and Innovation (2014, unknown): “In the model of Rotemberg and Saloner (2000), workers are more likely to undertake investment in human capital when firms are agglomerated.”
The Social Structure of Entrepreneurial Activity: Geographic Concentration of Footwear Production in the United States, 1940–19891 (2000, background): “Thus, one would expect to find production facilities clus- American Journal of Sociology tered around sources of raw materials.”
Job-Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Microfoundations of a High-Technology Cluster (2005, unknown): “For the innovation process described in (4) to be a source of agglomeration economies, it needs somehow to be localized (Rotemberg and Saloner 2000).”
Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain? (2009, unknown): “Larger labor pools further promote more efficient matches (e.g., Helsley and Strange, 1990), and multiple firms protect workers against ex post appropriation of investments in human capital (e.g., Rotemberg and Saloner, 2000).”
Knowledge spillovers in science and technology parks: how can firms benefit most? (2015, background): “employees and their qualifications as this is considered an important source of local externalities (Morosini 2004; Rotemberg and Saloner 2000).”