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the areas where they operate. Quantifying these agglomeration elasticities is of central importance in the evaluation of … the wider economic benefits of transport investments. We estimate agglomeration elasticities using the Statistics New … present separate estimates of agglomeration elasticities for specific industries and regions, and examine the interaction of …
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-geographically defined agglomeration measures, free of the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP), are used to study 23 industries. The spatial … impacts of agglomeration of related economic and knowledge generating activities are examined by using travel time distances … prospects tend to be hampered by the agglomeration of own-industry employment, but improved by proximate scientific activity …
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In this paper the relationship between firm growth and external knowledge sources, such as related firms and universities, is studied. The spatial characteristics of these relationships are examined by geolocating firms into a more realistic relational space using travel time distances and using...
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Nowadays, policy makers in charge of designing innovation policies, especially at the regional level, are more and more adopting the cluster approach either with a view to accelerate the existing clusters or for providing the basis for the emergence of new ones. In fact, not only as a...
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of agglomeration effects on growth prospects of firms is less clear. Because of the heterogeneity of industries …, different agglomeration mechanisms, or the way how industrial clusters are identified and spatially delimited, the conclusions … separately. Therefore, for each firm a micro-geographically defined agglomeration measure is calculated, which is free of the …
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growth in German cities from 2003 to 2007. Although, from a theoretical perspective, agglomeration economies are supposed to … known about agglomeration economies in Germany, where interregional support policy and the characteristics of the federal …
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growth in German cities from 2003 to 2007. Although, from a theoretical perspective, agglomeration economies are supposed to … known about agglomeration economies in Germany, where interregional support policy and the characteristics of the federal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458057
This article investigates the geographical location of workers in jobs with high-knowledge requirements in the German economy. Our analysis takes individual-level data from the German socioeconomic panel (GSOEP) and combines them with the knowledge information for different jobs that comes from...
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This paper presents a simple Chamberlinian agglomeration model which, like the canonical core-periphery (CP) model … complete agglomeration predicted by the CP model. …
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effects of the product mix of firms on agglomeration. I build a theoretical model of multiproduct firms à la Mayer, Melitz … agglomeration forces. …
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