important determinants of economic vitality. -- Human capital ; knowledge ; new economy ; productivity …

We estimate a model of urban productivity in which the agglomeration effect of density is enhanced by a metropolitan … accounts for the spatial distribution of population, we find that a doubling of density increases productivity by 2 to 4 … average labor productivity with respect to density increases with human capital. Metropolitan areas with a human capital stock …

Conventional R&D-based growth theory argues that productivity growth is driven by population growth but the data … suggest that the erstwhile positive correlation between population and productivity turned negative during the 20th century … explains why in modern economies high growth of productivity and income is associated with low or negative population growth …

We estimate a model of urban productivity in which the agglomeration effect of density is enhanced by a metropolitan … accounts for the spatial distribution of population, we find that a doubling of density increases productivity by 2 to 4 … average labor productivity with respect to density increases with human capital. Metropolitan areas with a human capital stock …

This paper extends earlier OECD work exploring the link between skills mismatch, productivity and policies to include … with an increase in productivity of around 7% in New Zealand. …

explore the effect of changes in the regional human capital levels induced by this reform on plant productivity in Korea. My … productivity. However, after further addressing endogeneity using an instrumental variable, the effect of the overall regional … human capital level on productivity decreases and becomes statistically insignificant …

productivity and both grew at a rate of 2.4% annually. Our estimates differ significantly from the data attributed to Sweden in the … preceded changes in aggregate productivity up to the structural crisis in the 1970s. This allows us to conclude that human …