This is a pioneering study of Brazil of the importance of labor pooling to explain industrial agglomeration in the … pooling variable is positive and significant.Thus, industries where, on average, plants face more idiosyncratic shocks …

key insight that emerges is that the interaction between agglomeration economies and comparative advantage involves a … comparative advantage in sectors governed by this force whilst the impact of agglomeration economies is enhanced by trade cost … small economies is not only shaped by the primitives that determine agglomeration economies and comparative advantage but …

A large body of literature considers the productive advantages of cities, or "agglomeration economies". Most empirical … studies report positive agglomeration economies, although large variation exists in the magnitude of estimates. We use a meta …, we find agglomeration elasticities are likely to lie in the range 2.7-6.4%. Our findings confirm the controls enabled by …

-2010 period. The aim of the study is twofold: (i) to provide descriptive evidence of the agglomeration distribution in Europe and … its evolution over time across countries; (ii) to identify the nature of agglomeration and the factors that determine its …: a) the changes in agglomeration are sensitive to demographic transformations taking place; b) the ecological …

effects of the product mix of firms on agglomeration. I build a theoretical model of multiproduct firms à la Mayer, Melitz … agglomeration forces. …

workers are not able to take full advantage of the benefits from agglomeration economies. China is changing rapidly, however … institutional limitations in China against further agglomeration weaken, and that the consensus in the literature that "Chinese …

distribution and fail to explain the political economy of urban agglomeration. As a major transitional economy, China's economic … decentralization, in conjunction with political control, portends a more complex environment for urban agglomeration and offers a new … wherein fiscal decentralization is negatively associated with urban agglomeration. Such phenomena can be attributed to the …