We consider whether external urban economic advantages (agglomeration economies) vary with time and space using a …, however, estimates have remained broadly stable. Our results reveal more significant spatial variation: Large cities offer net … benefits in production, but not in consumption, whereas small locations close to large cities ("satellites") experience …

Wage growth is stronger in larger cities, but this relationship holds exclusively for non-manual workers. Using rich … agglomeration economies, and its consequences for the city-size wage gap. After 15 years of work experience in Munich the cumulative …

A large body of literature considers the productive advantages of cities, or "agglomeration economies". Most empirical … studies report positive agglomeration economies, although large variation exists in the magnitude of estimates. We use a meta …, we find agglomeration elasticities are likely to lie in the range 2.7-6.4%. Our findings confirm the controls enabled by …

, and an ever larger share of the population living in cities. We explain this pattern within a regional innovation …-driven economic growth model with labor mobility and a demographic structure of overlapping generations. The model shows that there is …

that combines evidence on agglomeration benefits and the productivity impact of metropolitan governance structures, while … with city size but finds that cities with fragmented governance structures tend to have lower levels of productivity. This …This paper estimates agglomeration benefits across five OECD countries, and represents the first empirical analysis …

that contrasts cross-country evidence on agglomeration benefits with the productivity impact of metropolitan governance …In estimating agglomeration benefits across five OECD countries, this paper represents the first empirical analysis … structures, while taking into account the potential sorting of individuals across cities. The comparability of results in a multi …

There is a large literature on the existence of agglomeration economies, as shown in the surveys by Moomaw (1983) or …. Within the hierarchical urban system, cities at different ranks (different size) take on different economic functions with … variant 'efficient sizes' (Capello and Camagni, 2000) and, indeed, the distributions of cities' relative size have been stable …

’s smaller cities to assist in managing population growth, including international and national migration; and provides advice on … growth was highest amongst smaller cities located in coastal regions next to the two major cities in south-east Australia. By …-based policies that seek to concentrate investment in a limited number of smaller cities• encourage the growth of further education …

gathers within proper areas like cities, and currently the agglomeration within cities "is an extremely complex amalgam of … the hierarchical structure of the cities within the EU Member States with particular attention on agglomeration forces by … not possible to define as random. Indeed, countries have faced a strong tendency toward agglomeration, namely population …