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Productivity spillovers among knowledge workers in agglomerations : evidence from GitHub
El-Komboz, Lena Abou; Fackler, Thomas; Goldbeck, Moritz - 2024
concentration, with Silicon Valley as the epitome of a tech cluster. We investigate productivity effects of knowledge worker … productivity increases by 2.8 percent with a ten percent increase in cluster size, the share of the software engineering community … productivity effects are causal. Productivity gains from cluster size growth are strongest for clusters hosting between 0.67 and 13 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015048324
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Do governments tax agglomeration rents?
Koh, Hyun-Ju; Riedel, Nadine - 2010
Using the German local business tax as a testing ground, we empirically investigate the impact of firm agglomeration on municipal tax setting behavior. The analysis exploits a rich data source on the population of German firms to construct detailed measures for the communities' agglomeration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942187
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Spatial concentration of manufacturing firms in China
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Zhao, Zhao - 2014 - This version, June 2014
Applying the methodology developed by Duranton and Overman (2005, 2008), we analyze localization and dispersion of firms in China. Using a unique and detailed dataset on manufacturing firms in China, we are able to follow the changes in location patterns of firms between 2002 and 2008. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375399
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Smart cities are big cities : comparative advantage in Chinese cities
Hu, Shiwei; Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2014
The literature on China indicates that the concentration of economic activities in China is less than in other industrialized countries. Institutional limits are largely held responsible for this finding (e.g. the Hukou system); firms and workers are not able to take full advantage of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417992
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Welfare benefits of agglomeration and worker heterogeneity
Teulings, Coen N.; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Groot, Henri L. … - 2014
The direct impact of local public goods on welfare is relatively easy to measure from land rents. However, the indirect effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model for the valuation of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010391790
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Young people, skills and cities
Peri, Giovanni - 2001
Young highly educated workers developed in the 70 s and 80 s a preference for working in larger cities. As a consequence highly educated young workers in 1990 were over-represented in cities, in spite of the lower wage premium they earned for working in crowded metropolitan areas if compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408390
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Reflections on cluster policies
Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2012
Economic activity tends to cluster. This results in productivity gains. For policy makers this offers an opportunity to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009631669
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Urban specialisation : from sectoral to functional
Antoine, Antoine; Markusen, James R.; Venables, Anthony - 2021
-city country trades with the larger world, and workers within the country are mobile between the two cities. Productivity in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417745
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The rise (and fall) of tech clusters
Kichko, Sergey; Liang, Wen-Jung; Mai, Zhaocheng; … - 2020
tech cluster to form. Not only is the productivity of the final sector higher when intermediate firms cluster, but a tech … lowers coordination costs, tech clusters will eventually be fragmented. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271746
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Industrial clusters in the long run : evidence from Million-Rouble plants in China
Heblich, Stephan; Marlon, Seror; Xu, Hao; Zylberberg, Yanos - 2019
productivity advantage fully eroded in the subsequent period. We explore the nature of local spillovers responsible for this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026413