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different spatial structures, in particular the monocentricity – polycentricity dimension, affect the economic performance of U ….S. metropolitan areas. OLS and 2SLS models explaining labor productivity show that spatial structure matters. Polycentricity is …
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spatially organized within regions. Urban spatial structures have declined in terms of size, dispersion and polycentricity … Italian NUTS-3 regions. The findings include negative impacts of both polycentricity and dispersion and a positive impact of …
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International evidence suggests that aggregate productivity growth is driven by the within-industry reallocation of inputs away from less productive firms and towards more productive firms, but little is known about this process in Australia. Accordingly, this paper exploits firm-level data to...
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industries (i.e. productivity dispersion) we can enhance our understanding of the rich productivity dynamics of the economy and … Statistics - uses firm-level data from the Business Longitudinal Analysis Data Environment (BLADE) to measure the dispersion in …, Scientific and Technical Services; and Administrative and Support Services). The study finds labour productivity dispersion to be …
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Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological … issues. Nevertheless, the existence of considerable dispersion now is well documented and widely accepted. Less well … understood are the economic features and mechanisms underlying the magnitude of dispersion and how dispersion varies over time or …
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Geographical concentration of some industries over time is hard to explain without assuming the existence of agglomeration economies. The increasing availability of accurate individual firm data has renewed interest in the quantitative evaluation of the extent of these economies. Using three...
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Using dynamic panel data methods on UK counties (1841-1971), we investigate long-term employment dynamics in seven distinct local industries. We study how industries benefit from specialised environments (MAR), diverse local economies (Jacobs’) and large local markets (urbanization), and, in...
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measures.First, we provide theoretical decompositions into the eect of change in priceindex dispersion and the eect of change … sensitivityof USEFs to price dispersion are derived. Third, Atkinson's inequality measuresare shown to belong to an interval whose … bounds are inequality measures withoutprice index dispersion... …
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of Social Services of General Interest (SSGI). Polycentricity has been a favoured spatial pattern of EU policies since … polycentricity on SSGI provision have been made by Borges and Johansson (2013). In this study, the analysis shall be carried forward … estimate the relative impact of polycentricity on our dependent variables which is the provision of educational and health care …
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The paper presents a polycentric general equilibrium model with congestion externalities and distortionary labor taxation calibrated to fit the key empirical regularities of the regional economy and transport system of Randstad conglomeration. In line with more stylized models, marginal external...
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