In this chapter, Quentin Grafton, Stephen Knowles and Dorian Owen examine the implications for productivity arising … barriers to communication among groups, inhibiting the diffusion of knowledge and lowering the level of productivity in the …

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 …

This paper examines the impact of floods on firms' capital accumulation, employment growth and productivity by using a … is even more pronounced for companies with larger shares of intangible assets. Regarding the firms' productivity a …

the spillovers from FDI at the local level by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among domestic plants …

This paper examines the impact of floods on firms' capital accumulation, employment growth and productivity by using a … is even more pronounced for companies with larger shares of intangible assets. Regarding the firms' productivity a … ; firm growth ; Gibrat's Law ; productivity ; difference-in-differences …

productivity convergence and its speed at the country, region and industry levels simultaneously. The results show that conditional …

average labor productivity in one spatial unit on employment density and other controls. The novelty of our analysis is that … agglomeration in the conditional mean of labor productivity. Additionally, the QR and IVQR estimators find a progressively … decreasing, but still positive, effect of employment density along the conditional distribution of labor productivity. …

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 …

mobility enhances the productivity of firms located near highly productive firms. Using a unique dataset combining Social … significantly increases the productivity of other firms. To address identification threats arising from both contemporaneous and … future unobservable firm-level productivity shocks correlated with hiring, I use control function methods drawn from the …