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We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal...
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This paper empirically analyzes the agglomeration-related productivity premium at the enterprise level of the … manufacturing industry in Russia. A settlement is counted as part of an urban agglomeration in two cases: that of a large, central … as a result of urbanization and external scale economy - the agglomeration of firms belonging to different industries at …
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This paper empirically analyzes the agglomeration-related productivity premium at the enterprise level of the … manufacturing industry in Russia. A settlement is counted as part of an urban agglomeration in two cases: that of a large, central … as a result of urbanization and external scale economy – the agglomeration of firms belonging to different industries at …
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Productivity and wages tend to be higher in cities. This is typically explained by agglomeration economies, which … claims. Empirical research has long sought to confirm the existence of agglomeration economies and to adjudicate between the …
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Many structural changes have occurred in the European Union countries, for example, there have been changes in sectoral employment share, in the demand of goods due to technology, in trade patterns and in technology. These structural changes may affect the process of convergence. Most of the...
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-geographically defined agglomeration measures, free of the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP), are used to study 23 industries. The spatial … impacts of agglomeration of related economic and knowledge generating activities are examined by using travel time distances … prospects tend to be hampered by the agglomeration of own-industry employment, but improved by proximate scientific activity …
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-linear, inverted U-shape effect of agglomeration on productivity growth but in levels agglomeration is associated with higher …
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from total factor productivity originating from agglomeration economies and the spatial diffusion of productivity shocks … market conditions and firm-specific characteristics associated with firms located in neighbouring regions or municipalities. …
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Industrial agglomeration in China has been increasingly enhanced over the recent 40 years. Does the agglomeration bring …-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration (BTHUA) from 2006 to 2016, this paper uses a spatial econometrics model to analyze the impact of … manufacturing industrial agglomeration (MIA) and services industrial agglomeration (MIA), respectively, on the UCC. The results …
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This paper constructs a two-country model of international trade to study how labor market frictions affect industry location patterns, unemployment rates, and fully endogenous productivity growth. We show that when the larger country offers subsidies to labor search costs or reduces...
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