Document file:///D|/Export1/www.netlibrary.com/nlreader/nlreader.dll ...
Document file:///D|/Export1/www.netlibrary.com/nlreader/nlreader.dll ...
Document file:///D|/Export1/www.netlibrary.com/nlreader/nlreader.dll ...
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
<strong>Document</strong><br />
Page 96<br />
"iceberg" form introduced by Paul Samuelson: instead of modeling a separate transportation industry,<br />
we simply assume that a fraction of any manufactured good shipped melts away en route. Specifically,<br />
let x be the amount of some good shipped from j to k, and let z be the amount that arrives; then we<br />
assume<br />
0096-01.gif<br />
where τ is the transportation cost and D jk is the distance between the two locations.<br />
Finally, we turn to factor mobility. Farmers are assumed <strong>com</strong>pletely immobile. Workers are assumed to<br />
move toward locations that offer them higher real wages. (No attempt is made here to model the<br />
moving decision explicitly.) As we will see in the next section, it is possible to solve the model at any<br />
point in time for the real wages ω j paid to workers at each location. Let us define the average real wage<br />
as<br />
0096-02.gif<br />
Then the assumed law of motion of the economy is<br />
0096-03.gif<br />
That is, workers move away from locations with below-average real wages and toward sites with aboveaverage<br />
real wages.<br />
We have now specified a <strong>com</strong>plete model of geographic dynamics. The inputs into this model are the<br />
parameters µ, τ, and σ (which turn out to be the only parameters that cannot be eliminated by choice of<br />
units); a given allocation of farm labor across locations; a matrix of distances between<br />
<strong>file</strong>:///<strong>D|</strong>/Export2/<strong>www</strong>.<strong>netlibrary</strong>.<strong>com</strong>/<strong>nlreader</strong>/<strong>nlreader</strong>.<strong>dll</strong>@bookid=409&<strong>file</strong>name=page_96.html [4/18/2007 10:30:45 AM]