interactions that increase productivity), possibly reinforced by localised natural advantage. To distinguish between them, we nest … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the … cannot explain spatial productivity differences. This result holds across sectors, city size thresholds, establishment …

Urbanization economies - the effects on productivity and utility created endogenously by larger cities - are a …. Krupka (2008) presents a general model in which exogenous variation in local productivity ("natural advantage") and …/resident happiness and/or reducing productivity of employers. -- Agglomeration ; urbanization economies ; congestion ; regional …

density on productivity but we also consider many other local determinants supported by theory. Empirical issues are then … addressed. Most important concerns are about endogeneity at the local and individual levels, the choice of a productivity … of local determinants of productivity, employment, and firms' locations choices are surveyed for both developed and …

important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …

We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms …

performance, and total factor productivity. Second, we investigate whether and how such effects are transmitted to the workers, in …

We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage by applying administrative firm data. At the firm … level, we confirm positive effects on wages and negative employment effects and document higher productivity even net of … minimum wage increased aggregate productivity in manufacturing. We do not find that employment reallocation across firms …

We use linked employer-employee microdata for New Zealand to examine the relationship between firm-level productivity … migrant workers with NZ-born workers, through the lens of a derived "productivity-wage gap" that captures the difference in … complementarities between the two groups or, at least, positive mutual sorting of these groups into higher productivity firms. …

conditional on controlling for initial selection, SEZs induced no further productivity gains for within SEZ firms, on average … productivity gains. However, SEZs created negative externalities for firms in the vicinity which attenuate with distance …