Gorter, Joeri; Kok, Suzanne - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2009
In this paper we measure the strength of agglomeration economies on the basis of Dutch regional data.
The drift to … geographical areas. The advantages of proximity of people and firms go under the name 'agglomeration economies'. We regress … regional labour productivity on a set of agglomeration indices, and find evidence for a productivity effect of concentration of …