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Research on human capital generally focuses on the regional level, and neglects the relative effects of its distribution between center cities and surrounding suburbs. This research examines the effects of this intra-metropolitan distribution on economic performance. The findings indicate that...
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This paper reassesses the relationship between density and productivity by using detailed geo-coded data on wages and … employees in an area is an ‘exact’ measure of employment density. We find a significant relationship between density and … idea of positive agglomeration externalities, where a location in a square with high density neighbors reflects proximity …
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I analyze the effects of sub-city level density of economic activity on worker productivity. Using a geocoded dataset ….0625 km2), “districts” (1 km2), and “agglomerations” (10 km2). The wage-density elasticity depends crucially on spatial … localized density spillover effect and ii) quite sharp attenuation of human capital spillovers. An implication of the findings …
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spatial employment density has on the probability of inter-firm job-switching, while controlling for ample attributes of each … and robust positive influence of density on the probability of job switching. The likelihood that such switching is intra …
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’s exports and the distance to destination countries for Germany. To anticipate the most important result, it is shown that the … quality of exported goods and the distance to destination countries are not statistically positively correlated. …
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