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Services, comparative advantage and agglomeration of economic activity : a Ricardo-Marshall model

Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2014 - This version: February 28, 2014, preliminary

The last one and a half centuries have witnessed dramatic changes in the world economy. The service (tertiary) sector, which at the beginning of the 20th century was of little importance relative to agriculture and manufacturing, has become the dominant sector today, accounting for 80% and more...

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Malthus living in a slum : urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth

Castells-Quintana, David - 2014 - (Preliminary version)

Today more than half of the 7 billion inhabitants of the planet live in urban areas, with this share expected to keep rising. Whereas in developed countries urbanisation has been a long and slow process, in developing countries this process is now characterised by a really fast pace and a high...

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Regional concentration of knowledge intensive business services in Europe

Vence Deza, Xavier; González López, Manuel - 2010

This paper aims to contribute toa better understanding of the Knowledge Intensive Services spatial distribution across the European Union(EU) regions(NUTSII), linking recent research approaches on innovation and structural change with approaches to regional economics. As a means of conducting...

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How important are agglomeration effects for plant performance? : empirical evidence for Germany

Fuchs, Michaela; Ludewig, Oliver - 2010 - Preliminary version

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

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The productive city needs both : localization and urbanization economies across spatial scales in the city

Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Lundblad, Joakim - 2015 - This version 2015-01-16

, positively contribute to productivity of firms. While localization economies appear to be bound to the immediate neighborhood …

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Neighborhood effects on productivity : a knowledge spillover analysis using geocoded data

Larsson, Johan P. - 2012 - JIBS Friday seminar draft, June, 1st, 2012, Unpublished manuscript

This paper exploits a geocoded, publicly audited, full population dataset on employment and wages in Sweden's city areas, to analyze the relationship between density of economic activity and individual wages. The analysis is based on 250-by-250 meter (about 0.15 miles), 1 km2, 9 km2 and 100 km2...

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Urban spatial structure and economic growth in Spanish metropolitan areas : 1992-2008

Alamá, Luisa; Roig-Casanova, Marta; Forte, Anabel; … - 2011

associated with higher productivity levels. In this context, this paper explores the links between urban spatial structure and …

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Explaining the productivity advantages of manufacturing firms in Russian urban agglomerations

Gončar, Ksenija R.; Ratnikova, Tatyana A. - 2013

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 …

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What makes cities more productive? : evidence from 5 OECD countries on the role of urban governance

Ahrend, Rudiger; Farchy, Emily; Kaplanis, Ioannis; … - 2016

that contrasts cross-country evidence on agglomeration benefits with the productivity impact of metropolitan governance … lower levels of productivity. The estimated elasticity for an increase in the number of local jurisdiction is 0.06, which is … literature that city productivity increases with city size with an elasticity in the range of 0.02 to 0.05. …

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Deciphering the effects of agglomeration economies on firms' productive efficiency

Skuras, Dimitrios; Tsekouras, Kostas; Dimara, Efthalia - 2011

The present work assess the effects of MAR and Jacob's type agglomeration economies on a sample of firms in the machineries and textiles industries in Greece for the periods 1989-91 and 1999-01. The analysis employs a stochastic production frontier function and allows agglomeration economies to...

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