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A large body of literature considers the productive advantages of cities, or "agglomeration economies". Most empirical … studies report positive agglomeration economies, although large variation exists in the magnitude of estimates. We use a meta …, we find agglomeration elasticities are likely to lie in the range 2.7-6.4%. Our findings confirm the controls enabled by …
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neighbouring island and the mainland of Denmark. We analyse the effect of the opening of the bridge on the productivity of firms … throughout the country using a two-step approach: we estimate firm- and year-specific productivity for a large panel of …-fixed effects, we relate productivity to a calculated measure of accessibility that captures the effect of the opening of the bridge …
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High temperatures can have a negative effect on work-related activities. Labor productivity may go down because mental …
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We consider whether external urban economic advantages (agglomeration economies) vary with time and space using a … agglomeration economies that are stronger than average. …
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Productivity across European regions is related to three types of networks that mediate R&D-related knowledge … co-patenting relations appear to affect local productivity directly, regions that link up to innovative leader regions … via imports gain in productivity only when they have relatively high levels of human capital and absorptive capacity. From …
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-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product …
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We develop a model of an economy with several regions, which differ in scale. Within each region, workers have to search for a job-type that matches their skill. They face a trade-off between match quality and the cost of extended search. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is...
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With China's 2001 WTO accession, trade costs between the US and China fell sharply, but the transport costs of Chinese imports within the US remained sizable. We argue that domestic transport costs shield local labor markets from globalization. Using a shift-share design for industry-level...
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This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …
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