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 …

of economic activity in the Netherlands, from firm-specific total factor productivity (TFP) measures. TFP measures are … there is non-linear net 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 the level of urbanization and density …

The focus of the paper is on evaluating the productivity gap between rural and urban locations in the UK using micro … data. We build a structural model of the unobservable productivity emphasising the link between productivity and spatial … density of economic activity and adapt the semi-parametric estimation approach proposed in Olley and Pakes (1996) to estimate …

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 …

effects from true productivity leads to underestimated agglomeration economies. Under the preferred TFP measure, labor market …. -- agglomeration economies ; modifiable areal unit problem ; TFP estimation ; price bias ; localization ; urbanization economies …This paper investigates the relative impact of microeconomic agglomeration mechanisms on plant's total factor …

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 …

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 …

industrial structures with higher productivity. -- Total factor productivity ; structural estimation ; rural-urban divides ; UK …We compute the productivity gaps in manufacturing industries by urban, rural less sparse and rural sparse locations in … productivity differentials across locations by decomposing them into firm differences within the same industry and by differences …