manufacturing enterprises in Myanmar. We find that being located in an industrial zone associates with higher labour productivity …Focusing on labour productivity and working conditions, we investigate the benefits of industrial zones for private …. Value added gains, however, are not transferred to employees. The results are robust to different measures of productivity …

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 …

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 …

agglomeration in the conditional mean of labor productivity. Additionally, the QR and IVQR estimators find a progressively …In this paper we estimate agglomeration economies in Spain in 2009 basing on Ciccone?s (2002) model, which explains … average labor productivity in one spatial unit on employment density and other controls. The novelty of our analysis is that …

urbanization agglomeration patterns of new firm location. To this end, we analyze the location decisions of new manufacturing firms … in Spain. First, for a 3-digit level, we identify for each industry which type of agglomeration economies - localization … agglomeration economies, we analyse which industry characteristics are the sources that explain differences in the strength of these …

-linear, inverted U-shape effect of agglomeration on productivity growth but in levels agglomeration is associated with higher …We compute aggregate productivity of three categories of regions, classified by level of urbanization in the … Netherlands, from firm-specific total factor productivity (TFP) measures. TFP measures are estimated by a semi …

The question whether agglomeration effects are of importance for regional development has a long tradition in regional … science. This paper asks if regional characteristics and specifically ag-glomeration effects influence the performance of … regional agglomeration effects for Germany. Second, while earlier papers looked only at few sectors of the economy or only at …

This paper analyzes the effect of agglomeration economies on firms' total factor productivity. We propose the use of a …-uniform effects of agglomeration economies on firms given their technological level. In addition, R&D is included to account for the … 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 …-uniform effects of agglomeration economies on firms given their technological level. In addition, R&D is included to account for the … firms’ own efforts to foster productivity through creating and absorbing knowledge. Finally, radii as well as administrative …