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that contrasts cross-country evidence on agglomeration benefits with the productivity impact of metropolitan governance … rather than administrative boundaries. The analysis finds that cities with fragmented governance structures tend to have … lower levels of productivity. The estimated elasticity for an increase in the number of local jurisdiction is 0.06, which is …
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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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Income levels are higher in cities. The evidence for the income gap between urban and rural areas is overwhelming, but the agglomeration effect is hard to identify. Recent advances make use of individual level data to separate out sorting and instrumentation to handle the endogeneity of...
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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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This paper presents a theoretical approach to solve the main problems faced to explain the relationship between aggregate economic growth and the urban structure. The most significant conclusion reached is that there is a theoretical relationship between aggregate economic growth and urban...
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In this paper we compare the magnitude of local productivity advantages associated to two different spatial … findings. We detect local productivity advantages for both UA and ID. However, firms located in UA attain a larger Total Factor … Productivity (TFP) premium than those operating within ID. Besides, it turns out that the advantages of ID have declined over time …
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It has long been known that the city-size distributions are fat tailed, drawing the interest of urban economists. In contrast, not much is known about the distribution of GDP at city level (henceforth referred to as gross metropolitan product, GMP). We build a model of the spatial economy that...
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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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This paper seeks to investigate the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. at the local labor market level, exploring whether the segregation of this group is a homogeneous phenomenon across the country or there are important disparities in the opportunities that these women meet...
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