agglomeration is shown to be always sustainable, which complements existing results in literature …

In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of … economic activity. If firms are more similar with respect to their total factor productivity, each company faces a lower … propensity to export. This renders the home market more important speaking against agglomeration. We also relate changes in firm …

This paper empirically analyzes the agglomeration-related productivity premium at the enterprise level of the … both the urban and the regional levels of analysis. We also found that productivity gained from urban agglomeration is the … almost doubles the productivity premium of a firm in an urban agglomeration. All of our results are robust to changes in …

This paper examines the micro-foundations of occupational agglomeration in U.S. metropolitan areas, with an emphasis on … higher levels of geographic concentration than do occupations with generic knowledge requirements. Further, by analyzing co-agglomeration … evidence on the importance of labor market pooling as a determinant of occupational agglomeration. -- Agglomeration …