Since 1980, US wage growth has been fastest in large cities. Empirically, we show that most of this urban-biased growth reflects wage growth at large Business Services firms, which are also the most intensive users of information and communications technology (ICT) capital in the US economy. We...

Anhand von Daten über den Ausbau des Telekom Austria Breitbandnetzes sowie über die Beschäftigungsentwicklung auf Gemeindeebene wird mithilfe von ökonometrischen Methoden versucht, einen Zusammenhang zwischen Breitbandausbau und regionalem Wirtschaftswachstum zu finden. Obwohl in der...

Virtually all theories of economic growth predict a positive relationship between population size and productivity. In this paper I study a particular historical episode to provide direct evidence for the empirical relevance of such scale effects. In the aftermath of the Second World War about...

We examine impacts of market integration on the development of American manufacturing, as railroads expanded through the latter half of the 19th century. Using new county-by-industry data from the Census of Manufactures, we estimate substantial impacts on manufacturing productivity from relative...