Using comprehensive, anonymized tax administrative data for the 2008-14 period, we examine firm-level productivity in … South Africa. Measures of firm-level productivity are included in a spatial autoregressive model that assesses spillovers … from total factor productivity originating from agglomeration economies and the spatial diffusion of productivity shocks …

Using comprehensive, anonymized tax administrative data for the 2008-14 period, we examine firm-level productivity in … South Africa. Measures of firm-level productivity are included in a spatial autoregressive model that assesses spillovers … from total factor productivity originating from agglomeration economies and the spatial diffusion of productivity shocks …

of the evolution of aggregate UK and French productivity and markups: 2) Analyse the spatial distribution of productivity …) for France – while focusing on the role of economic density. Our findings suggest that differences in firm productivity … across regions are magnified in the aggregate by an increasing productivity return of density along the productivity …

productivity of firms. Development indicators include local research and development activity or education while policy decisions … large national panel of firms. Importantly, such a rich dataset has rarely been employed for productivity and location … choice exercises. The paper is composed of two sections dealing with location choice and productivity, respectively and we …

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 …

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 to employees. The results are robust to different measures of productivity …

Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across … US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size …