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Do agglomerations stimulate productivity? An extensive literature on agglomeration economies, or urban increasing … returns, has analyzed this question with aggregated spatial data. This paper estimates the relationship between agglomeration … learning effect in that agglomeration enhances firms’ productivity. Third, the role of agglomeration phenomena does not seem to …
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Do agglomerations stimulate productivity? An extensive literature on agglomeration economies, or urban increasing … returns, has analyzed this question with aggregated spatial data. This paper estimates the relationship between agglomeration … learning effect in that agglomeration enhances firms’ productivity. Third, the role of agglomeration phenomena does not seem to …
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-standing question whether agglomeration economies derive from specialization (within-industry) or diversity (between-industry). We show …
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Using longitudinal Swedish data, we document robust evidence of highly local spillovers between individuals in similar occupations. The results are consistent with the existence of knowledge spillovers between workers performing similar work tasks in the same city-district. We further...
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skilled workers. We conclude that industry structure, geography and agglomeration matter, but in the end, new firms are …
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This paper examines small innovative entrepreneurs by contrasting patenting firms against non-patenting firms. The empirical analysis is based on new and unique data on internal attributes, location and international trade characteristics for over 20 000 manufacturing firms in Sweden with 1-25...
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skilled workers. We conclude that industry structure, geography and agglomeration matter, but in the end, new firms are …
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