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Urban spatial structure and economic growth in Spanish metropolitan areas : 1992-2008
Alamá, Luisa; Roig-Casanova, Marta; Forte, Anabel; … - 2011
associated with higher productivity levels. In this context, this paper explores the links between urban spatial structure and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527324
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The productive city needs both : localization and urbanization economies across spatial scales in the city
Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Lundblad, Joakim - 2015 - This version 2015-01-16
, positively contribute to productivity of firms. While localization economies appear to be bound to the immediate neighborhood …
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Income, distance and spatial effects in the Monocentric model : the Barcelona Metropolitan Area case.
Madariaga, Rafa; Martori, Joan Carles; Oller, Ramon - 2011
This paper focuses on the income distribution of households in Barcelona Metropolitan Area. For this purpose we use the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011545589
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Neighborhood effects on productivity : a knowledge spillover analysis using geocoded data
Larsson, Johan P. - 2012 - JIBS Friday seminar draft, June, 1st, 2012, Unpublished manuscript
This paper exploits a geocoded, publicly audited, full population dataset on employment and wages in Sweden's city areas, to analyze the relationship between density of economic activity and individual wages. The analysis is based on 250-by-250 meter (about 0.15 miles), 1 km2, 9 km2 and 100 km2...
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Explaining the productivity advantages of manufacturing firms in Russian urban agglomerations
Gončar, Ksenija R.; Ratnikova, Tatyana A. - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011675119
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What makes cities more productive? : evidence from 5 OECD countries on the role of urban governance
Ahrend, Rudiger; Farchy, Emily; Kaplanis, Ioannis; … - 2016
that contrasts cross-country evidence on agglomeration benefits with the productivity impact of metropolitan governance … lower levels of productivity. The estimated elasticity for an increase in the number of local jurisdiction is 0.06, which is … literature that city productivity increases with city size with an elasticity in the range of 0.02 to 0.05. …
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How polycentric is a monocentric city? : the role of agglomeration economies
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Wendland, Nicolai - 2010
Can the demise of the monocentric economy across cities during the 20th century be explained by decreasing transport costs to the city center or are other fundamental forces at work? Taking a hybrid perspective of classical bid-rent theory and a world where clustering of economic activity is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011550697
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Megalopolis : an assay for the identification of the world urban mega-structures
Arellano Ramos, Blanca Esmaragda; Roca Cladera, Josep - 2015
The urban development of the twentieth century can be characterized by rise of the metropolitanization process. However, especially since 1950, it has been producing a real change of scale in this growth: the infinite growth of metropolitan peripheries, encouraged by the process of urban sprawl,...
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Market potential and distance decay : growth and decline of sectors across locations in urban regions
Klaesson, Johan; Johansson, Börje - 2013
This paper introduces a model which identifies the economic activity of each local economy (location) and observes the time distance between each pair of locations as well as the average time distance between sub locations in each local economy. The study focuses on five categories of firms:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011560011
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Immigration, housing markets, and community vitality
Vigdor, Jacob L. - In: The Cato journal : an interdisciplinary journal of … 37 (2017) 3, pp. 487-494
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