Accessibility has for many years been a widely used tool in transportation research. Many definitions have been … need for investments in the transport systems. However, accessibility measures can be regarded as the spatial counterparts … different spatial units. We will in this paper against this background show that accessibility is an underused analytical and …

between regional productivity measures as gross regional product per square kilometre and accessibility to educated labour. We …Accessibility to knowledge and local service markets can be assumed to explain regional growth performance. The role of … accessibility to labour and to purchasing power. We estimate first a cross-section model by using OLS. Second we employ a panel data …

Do agglomerations stimulate productivity? An extensive literature on agglomeration economies, or urban increasing … and productivity at the firm level using static and dynamic models. It makes use of a rich dataset comprising register … learning effect in that agglomeration enhances firms’ productivity. Third, the role of agglomeration phenomena does not seem to …

I analyze the effects of sub-city level density of economic activity on worker productivity. Using a geocoded dataset … is that if the data source is not sufficiently disaggregated, analyses of the density-productivity link risk understating …

productivity differs between regions. Using a decomposition method, akin to shift-share, we are able to separate regional wage … disparities into an industrial composition component and productivity component. According to theory it is expected that … productivity is higher in larger regions due to different kinds of economies of agglomeration. Also, larger regions are able to …

these two hypotheses on the current regional development in Japan,measured in four alternative ways: population growth, the … of market accessibility and human capital. On detailed regional level (46 prefectures) the analysis does not give any …