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urbanization agglomeration patterns of new firm location. To this end, we analyze the location decisions of new manufacturing firms … or urbanization- explain new firm's location. And second, using the coefficients obtained in these estimations for both … market pooling mechanism. For the industries with higher effect of urbanization economies on their location patterns …
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This paper empirically analyzes the agglomeration-related productivity premium at the enterprise level of the … to consider firm, urban and regional heterogeneity and test two possible explanations of the productivity advantages of …. The results suggest that Russian plants in urban agglomerations enjoy 17-21% higher labor productivity. This gain arises …
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to influence productivity. To this end we estimate plant-level production functions augmented by regional characteristics … urbanization seems to have a negative influence. Results for the dynamic models are rather inconclusive. …
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of the evidence of a rapid pace of urbanization process. Using a database with information of 162 regions of 8 Latin … estimate the effect of agglomeration on regional growth in three periods. The measures of agglomeration are urbanization rate … effect of urbanization changes was 5700 dollars of per capita income. Low-developed regions experience larger positive …
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-monotonous effect of urbanization on the various externalities that impact on the local productivity. Precisely, the positive …The spatial agglomeration of economic activities play a crucial role on productivity but the composition of such an … specialization and diversity. This paper aims to estimate the impact of the type of externalities on the local sectoral productivity …
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specifications and introducing different measures for agglomeration at country level, especially urbanization and urban concentration …
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This paper investigates whether labor mobility varies with the degree of agglomeration and, if so, how the differences can be explained. The theoretical basis rests on the advantages agglomerations exhibit in providing a large pooled labor market, one of Marshall's famous three sources of...
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This paper revisits a classical inquiry by addressing the question of localization and urbanization economies. We …, positively contribute to productivity of firms. While localization economies appear to be bound to the immediate neighborhood … level within cities, urbanization grow stronger at larger spatial scales. These results provide some support for that …
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Standard approaches to studying industrial agglomeration have been in terms of scalar measures of agglomeration within each industry. But such measures often fail to distinguish spatial scales of agglomeration. In a previous paper, Mori and Smith (2014) proposed a pair of quantitative measures...
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Urbanization Process and Economic Growth: The So-What Question, Journal of Economic Growth, 8, 47-71. …
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