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When are localization and urbanization economies important? : evidence from the location of new firms
Jofre-Monseny, Jordi; Marín-López, Raquel; Viladecans … - 2012
The objective of this paper is to analyze the influence of industry characteristics on the localization and 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...
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Industrial agglomeration in Myanmar
Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Trifkovic, Neda; Zille, Helge - 2019
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...
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How important are agglomeration effects for plant performance? : empirical evidence for Germany
Fuchs, Michaela; Ludewig, Oliver - 2010 - Preliminary version
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 plants in Germany and, if so, in which direction....
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Spatial concentration of manufacturing firms in China
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Zhao, Zhao - 2014 - This version, June 2014
firms in China. Using a unique and detailed dataset on manufacturing firms in China, we are able to follow the changes in … location patterns of firms between 2002 and 2008. Our analysis shows that firms in China are more localized than in the UK or … state-owned firms. Our findings are consistent with the notion that China is increasingly liberalizing its economy, enabling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375399
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Spatial Concentration of Manufacturing Firms in China
Brakman, Steven - 2014
firms in China. Using a unique and detailed dataset on manufacturing firms in China, we are able to follow the changes in … location patterns of firms between 2002 and 2008. Our analysis shows that firms in China are more localized than in the UK or … state-owned firms. Our findings are consistent with the notion that China is increasingly liberalizing its economy, enabling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050474
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Agglomeration and Markup
Lu, Yi; Tao, Zhigang; Yu, Linhui - 2012
Agglomeration brings costs (e.g., intensified local competition) as well as benefits (e.g., knowledge spillover). It is important to examine the net impact of agglomeration to understand the geographic distribution of economic activities. In this study, we use firm markup (defined as the ratio...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014169339
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Industry-specific firm growth and aggolmeration
Duschl, Matthias; Scholl, Tobias; Brenner, Thomas; … - 2012
This paper studies the industry-specific relationship between industrial clustering and firm growth. Micro-geographically defined agglomeration measures, free of the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP), are used to study 23 industries. The spatial impacts of agglomeration of related economic...
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Plants’ Self-Selection, Agglomeration Economies and Regional Productivity in Chile
Saito, Hisamitsu - 2010
In this study, we assess the relative contribution of plants' self-selection and agglomeration economies to a region's productivity level. We focus on manufacturing plants by region in the Chilean food industry, which is not only a major source of employment and exports but also spatially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152446
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Shared knowledge and the coagglomeration of occupations
Gabe, Todd M.; Abel, Jaison R. - 2013
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the extent to which people in different occupations locate near one another, or coagglomerate. We construct pairwise Ellison-Glaeser coagglomeration indices for U.S. occupations and use these measures to investigate the factors influencing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736210
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Agglomeration economies and firm TFP : different effects across industries
Gornig, Martin; Schiersch, Alexander - 2019
This paper analyzes the effect of agglomeration economies on firms' total factor productivity. We propose the use of a control function approach to overcome the econometric issue inherent to the two-stage approach commonly used in the literature. Estimations are conducted separately for four...
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