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 …

average labor productivity in one spatial unit on employment density and other controls. The novelty of our analysis is that … agglomeration in the conditional mean of labor productivity. Additionally, the QR and IVQR estimators find a progressively … decreasing, but still positive, effect of employment density along the conditional distribution of labor productivity. …

to influence productivity. To this end we estimate plant-level production functions augmented by regional characteristics …

We compute aggregate productivity of three categories of regions, classified by level of urbanization in the … Netherlands, from firm-specific total factor productivity (TFP) measures. TFP measures are estimated by a semi … over the period 1997-2006. We analyse the productivity differentials across urbanization categories by decomposing them …

. In the model, firms are heterogeneous in productivity. Selection effect and agglomeration economies caused by … agglomeration increase firms' productivity and decreases industrial entry costs, and factor prices are increased because of … shows that the compositive effect is that the influences of productivity on the latter increase with agglomeration level …

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 …