productivity (TFP) using German establishment and employment level data. Contrasting different strategies to estimate TFP from … effects from true productivity leads to underestimated agglomeration economies. Under the preferred TFP measure, labor market … R&D funding, positively affect plant productivity. Except for job changes the result is even robust when the spatial …

This working paper offers a synthesis of the current knowledge on the determinants of productivity. It carefully … reviews both “spatial” (e.g. agglomerations, infrastructure, geography) and “aspatial” (e.g. human capital, labour regulations …, industry-level innovation and dynamism) productivity drivers and demonstrates how the underlying spatial dynamics behind the …

manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available, unique data. We find concave age-productivity profiles and a negative … paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand with a lower … age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …

This paper, by using annual surveys of manufacturing firms from 1998 to 2005 in China, first documents a positive … impact on firm size. Finally, we find that firms are more likely to become larger by locating with a number of large firms … rather than with a large number of firms …

If localization economies are present, firms within denser industry concentrations should exhibit higher levels of … performance than more isolated firms. Nevertheless, research in industrial organization that has focused on the influences on firm …) of firms in the same industry increases mortality rates while greater concentration over larger distances reduces …

Firms may benefit from proximity to each other due to the existence of several externalities. The productivity premia … terms of productivity than non-traders when agglomeration rises. Firms that are stable participants of international trade … of firms located in agglomerated regions an be attributed to savings and gains from external economies. However, the …