TY - JOUR TI - Three pillars of urbanization: migration, aging, and growth AB - Economic development in industrialized countries is characterized by rising per capita GDP, increasing life expectancy, and an ever greater share of the population living in cities. We explain this pattern within a regional innovation-driven economic growth model with labor mobility and a demographic structure of overlapping generations. The model shows a natural tendency for core–periphery structures to emerge in modern knowledge-based economies. DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10645-020-09356-z SP - 259 EP - 278 UR - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10645-020-09356-z PY - 2020-01-01 JO - De Economist AU - Grafeneder-Weissteiner, Theresa AU - Prettner, Klaus AU - Südekum, Jens ER -