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 to employees. The results are robust to different measures of productivity …

average labor productivity in one spatial unit on employment density and other controls. The novelty of our analysis is that … decreasing, but still positive, effect of employment density along the conditional distribution of labor productivity. …In this paper we estimate agglomeration economies in Spain in 2009 basing on Ciccone?s (2002) model, which explains …

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 analyzes the effect of agglomeration economies on firms' total factor productivity. We propose the use of a … firms’ own efforts to foster productivity through creating and absorbing knowledge. Finally, radii as well as administrative …

This paper analyzes the effect of agglomeration economies on firms’ total factor productivity. We propose the use of a … firms’ own efforts to foster productivity through creating and absorbing knowledge. Finally, radii as well as administrative …

It is well known that labour productivity growth in Europe is slowing down, against an increasing growth rate in the US …. The Netherlands is one of the countries in Europe with the lowest growth rates of productivity. This article looks at this … of The Netherlands between 1995 and 2002. We find that slow productivity growth in The Netherlands is particularly …

In this paper we compare the magnitude of local productivity advantages associated to two different spatial … findings. We detect local productivity advantages for both UA and ID. However, firms located in UA attain a larger Total Factor … Productivity (TFP) premium than those operating within ID. Besides, it turns out that the advantages of ID have declined over time …