the 2004 China manufacturing census data and tests simultaneously the effects of urban size and industrial diversity on … firm productivity, controlling for localization economies and human capital externalities. We find that productivity …

This paper estimates the impacts of China's preferential policies on the economic performance of domestic firms in … urban agglomerations. First, several proxies for China's heterogenous policies (e.g. subsidies, access to loans, and tax … preferential policies on firm productivity, especially in larger cities. The results reveal that Chinese preferential policies …

China strongly restricts rural-rural, urban-urban, and rural-urban migration. The result which this paper documents is … areas the paper estimates a city productivity relationship, based on city GDP numbers for 1990-97. The effects of access …, educational attainment, FDI, and public infrastructure on productivity are estimated. Worker productivity is shown to be an …