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Does broadband internet allow cities to ‘borrow size’? Evidence from the Swedish labour market

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Date
09/01/2020
Author
de Vos, Duco
Lindgren, Urban
van Ham, Maarten
Meijers, Evert
Keywords
Broadband internet
Agglomoration economies
Borrowed size
Commuting
Employment
HB Economic Theory
GB Physical geography
GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
T Technology
3rd-DAS
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Abstract
Borrowed size refers to the idea that small cities nearby larger metropolitan centres are able to reap the advantages of large agglomerations, without the agglomeration costs. This study explores whether broadband internet helps such smaller cities to enjoy the labour market benefits of a larger city. Using Swedish micro-data from 2007-2015, together with unique data on broadband, we find suggestive evidence that broadband allows smaller cities to reap such benefits indeed. We find that borrowed size is primarily driven by the overall penetration of broadband in the place of residence, rather than by broadband availability at the residence.
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de Vos , D , Lindgren , U , van Ham , M & Meijers , E 2020 , ' Does broadband internet allow cities to ‘borrow size’? Evidence from the Swedish labour market ' , Regional Studies , vol. Latest Articles . https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1699238
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Regional Studies
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1699238
ISSN
0034-3404
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Funding: VIDI grant no. 452-14-004, provided by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/19260

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