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The urban economics literature provides ample evidence of an urban wage premium: wages are higher in larger urban areas. This paper addresses three central issues of the urban wage premium about which the field has not yet reached a consensus. First, the extent to which sorting of high ability...
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The main aim of the paper is to investigate the co-localization patterns of three-digits manufacturing in Italy in 2010. Thus, exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) will be conducted using discrete and continuous models in order to capture more efficiently the phenomenon. The location...
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The traditional way of industrial production has transformed into high added-value products and services sector while the geography of manufacturing has been changing accordingly. On the other hand, both determinants and impacts of industrial location decisions and agglomeration economies have...
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the spatial co-localization in Vietnam of two-digits manufacture industries in 2010. Thus, an exploratory cross-sectional analysis will be conducted using discrete-space models in order to unfold the idiosyncratic patterns of agglomeration, concentration...
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The city of Moscow is capital city of Russia, the biggest megalopolis in Europe and biggest attractor for migrants from the Post-Soviet countries. As the business centre in Eastern Europe, Moscow has headquarters of major public and private Russian corporations and banks and is the largest...
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This paper studies the industry-specific relationship between industrial clustering and firm growth. The literature usually considers industrial clusters as positive for the general economic development of regions. In particular, their relationship with the formation rate of new firms and the...
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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 city and that of a town located within 50 kilometers of...
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As cities play important roles in economic growth, the competitive power of foreign trade of cities has gained more and more attentions. Exporting hazard rate, as one dimension of foreign competitive power, shall be specifically measured. And its spatial distribution across cities shall be...
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Policy makers at all levels of government believe that one of the key drivers of local economic growth is new businesses. Therefore, governments design policy with the intention of attracting businesses with the hopes that this will create future growth in struggling areas. Over the past few...
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The population of the Petersburg's city agglomeration on January 1, 2012 was about 5,9 million people, the territory area -- 11,6 thousand km ². The borders, spatial and structural features of the Petersburg's city agglomeration are defined by JSC "Peterburgsky NIPIGrad" within works on...
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