Essays on location choice: agglomeration, amenities and housing

Diplôme Thèse Essays on location choice: agglomeration, amenities and housing eng 2015-08-21 author Boualam Brahim 709267 director Robert-Nicoud Frédéric 85680 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:75399 urn:nbn:ch:unige-753990 GSEM 12 Why do people live where they live and what are the consequences of these decisions? People and firms allocate themselves unevenly across space. In spite of large costs incurred when living in metropolitan areas, economic agents remain extremely concentrated in a finite number of cities. This thesis explores several factors that may influence these location decisions and their effect on economic agents. The first essay questions the role of cultural amenities in explaining the location of firms and residents across American cities. Next, the second essay examines a consequence of the geographic concentration of workers. It evaluates the influence of urban density on the quality of the match between workers' education and their occupation. Finally, the last essay documents the importance of housing vacancies in France. It examines how distance and access to the city center affect the housing vacancy rate in suburban municipalities. Urban economics Agglomeration Location choice Local amenities Labor matching Skills Housing Residential vacancy rate Urban wage premium Dewey 330 114 Institute of Economics and Econometrics S2 false 895b75b9-0de4-4b37-9a6b-828caef6ed04 Thesis Public These.pdf 3957465 application/pdf openAccess Faculté d'économie et de management / Institute of Economics and Econometrics

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