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The impact of age complementarities and learning externalities on labor productivity: evidence from German micro data

Peters, Jan Cornelius - 2017

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Agglomeration economies and firm level labor misallocation

Fontagné, Lionel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2016

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Industrial agglomeration in Myanmar

Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Trifkovic, Neda; Zille, Helge - 2019

Focusing on labour productivity and working conditions, we investigate the benefits of industrial zones for private manufacturing enterprises in Myanmar. We find that being located in an industrial zone associates with higher labour productivity. Value added gains, however, are not transferred...

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Labour Productivity in Auckland Firms

Maré, David C. - 2010

This paper examines labour productivity in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, using microdata from Statistics New … Zealand's Prototype Longitudinal Business Database. It documents a sizeable productivity premium in Auckland, around half of …, reflecting differences in both physical productivity and prices. This correlation is evident both within Auckland, and comparing …

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Agglomeration Economies in Classical Music

Borowiecki, Karol - 2013

This study investigates agglomeration effects for classical music production in a wide range of cities for a global sample of composers born between 1750 and 1899. Theory suggests a trade-off between agglomeration economies (peer effects) and diseconomies (peer crowding). I test this hypothesis...

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How 'Provincial' is Your Region? Effects on Labour Productivity in Europe

Gambardella, Alfonso; Mariani, Myriam; Torrisi, Salvatore - 2002

This paper estimates the determinants of labour productivity in European NUTS regions during 1989-1996. We compare three potential explanations of regional advantages: Technological capabilities (proxied by regional patents), agglomeration economies (employment density), and openness. To study...

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Modelling of a Regional Industry Specialisation : The Impact of Agglomeration Economies on Labour Productivity

Skhvediani, Angi; Sosnovskikh, Sergey; Kudryavtseva, Tatiana - 2022

Localisation economies are known to boost the regional economy and its growth potential. The emergence of these effects is due to localised knowledge flows, the closeness to markets, and the diversity of services and industries. Localisation economies have the potential to increase the...

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Do agglomeration economies affect firms' returns to training? : evidence based on French industrial firms

Morin, Yoann; Vedrine, Lionel - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 101 (2022) 5, pp. 1135-1156

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Regional wage differences and agglomeration externalities : micro evidence from Thai manufacturing workers

Nutchapon Prasertsoong; Puttanapong, Nattapong - In: Economies : open access journal 10 (2022) 12, pp. 1-22

The large and persistent wage gap between the Bangkok Metropolitan Region and its peripheries remains a major concern for policymakers and civil society. Theoretically, these regional disparities exist due to differences in workforce skills and the local characteristics of the regions. This...

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Spatial Structure and Productivity in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Meijers, E.J. (Evert) - 2010

Recent concepts as megaregions and polycentric urban regions emphasize that external economies are not confined to a single urban core, but shared among a collection of close-by and linked cities. However, empirical analyses of agglomeration and agglomeration externalities so-far neglects the...

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