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. …

and industries. All these effects have the potential to increase the productivity (and profitability) of firms. Whereas …

Productivity and wages tend to be higher in cities. This is typically explained by agglomeration economies, which … pooling and spillovers. The data show spillovers enhance plant productivity within industries rather than between them and …

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 …

to influence productivity. To this end we estimate plant-level production functions augmented by regional characteristics …