productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated across sectors. In this paper, we draw on new micro evidence to ask …

relationship to both (i) institutional constraints, and (ii) productivity …

larger cities, but also to greater frictions through congestion and other negative effects of agglomeration. Using data on …

We present hedonic general-equilibrium estimates of quality-of-life and productivity differences across Canada …

existence of agglomeration economies, which exist when productivity rises with density, but estimating the magnitude of those …

agglomeration of economic activity within both rural industrial and urban areas, with resulting first order losses in GDP. For urban … areas the paper estimates a city productivity relationship, based on city GDP numbers for 1990-97. The effects of access …, educational attainment, FDI, and public infrastructure on productivity are estimated. Worker productivity is shown to be an …

international trade and economic geography. We build a model with agglomeration economies where firms with heterogeneous … productivity sort across city sizes and select into exporting. The model allows us to study the geographic implications of trade … raises not only the aggregate productivity of the economy but also its aggregate export intensity, by allowing more firms to …

result of the resource reallocation, aggregate firm-wide productivity increases, suggesting that the reallocation is …