This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …

agglomeration in the conditional mean of labor productivity. Additionally, the QR and IVQR estimators find a progressively …In this paper we estimate agglomeration economies in Spain in 2009 basing on Ciccone?s (2002) model, which explains … average labor productivity in one spatial unit on employment density and other controls. The novelty of our analysis is that …

This study assesses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on gendered labour markets in rural Indonesia. It …-educated workforce with technical skills. In light of these perspectives, gender gaps in education and, on average, women?s weaker labour …

for regional productivity, and surge of particular historic, cultural and societal circumstances, why are policies needed …

of agglomeration effects on growth prospects of firms is less clear. Because of the heterogeneity of industries …, different agglomeration mechanisms, or the way how industrial clusters are identified and spatially delimited, the conclusions … separately. Therefore, for each firm a micro-geographically defined agglomeration measure is calculated, which is free of the …

try to fill this gap by estimating the effects of urban agglomeration on knowledge intensive business service firmsâ … and local labour system level. In so doing, we estimate the impact that the short-run variations in urban size have on the …

This paper examines the empirical relationship between agglomeration and economic growth for a panel of 48 Central and … Eastern European regions from 1995 to 2006. By agglomeration, we mean the within-regional concentration of aggregate economic … for endogeneity and spatial dependence. Our empirical analysis provides evidence of a positive effect of agglomeration as …

agglomeration. The core region, being more attractive to high skilled workers, has a disproportionately large share of production at … all levels of the supply chain. The paper studies the effects on segmentation and agglomeration of interregional trade in …