The growth of an industry in a city has been explained by dynamic externality theories such as those by Marshall, Arrow and Romer, Porter, Jacobs and Storper. Each of these views describes a different mechanism by which the initial conditions for a particular industry in a city facilitate...

This paper performs multiple regression analysis to identify a large number of determinants of commuting time and distance for Seoul residents using the 2 per cent public-use sample data tape of the 1995 Korean Population Census. Among the numerous findings, it is noted that commuting times and...

This paper revisits the concept of agglomeration economies by estimating the effects of localisation, urbanisation and local competition on labour productivity using establishment-level data in Korean manufacturing industries. It is found that, when an establishment locates in a more...