The focus of the paper is on evaluating the productivity gap between rural and urban locations in the UK using micro … data. We build a structural model of the unobservable productivity emphasising the link between productivity and spatial … - 2001. We allow market structure to differ by endogenous export status and location choices and model productivity as a …

We study the origins of labor productivity growth and its differences across sectors. In our model, sectors employ … a large and increasing contribution to aggregate labor productivity growth. Neither capital accumulation nor the …

This paper analyzes the effect of agglomeration economies on firms' total factor productivity. We propose the use of a … firms’ own efforts to foster productivity through creating and absorbing knowledge. Finally, radii as well as administrative …