Regional Productivity Differences in the UK and France: From the Micro to the Macro
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We propose a new data resource that attempts to overcome limitations of standard firm‐level datasets for the United Kingdom (like the ARD/ABS) by building on administrative data covering the population of UK firms with at least one employee. We also construct a similar dataset for France and use both datasets to (1) provide some highlights of ...
Bridget Kauma, Giordano Mion
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Job Search in Thick Markets: Evidence from Italy [PDF]
I analyze empirically the effects of both urban and industrial agglomeration on men’s and women’s search behavior and on the efficiency of matching. The analysis is based on the Italian Labor Force Survey micro-data, which covers 520 randomly drawn Local
Sabrina Di Addario
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Internal Migration Over the Course of Urbanization in Developing Countries
Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract Our understanding of the patterns of internal migration that underlie the fast urbanization in developing countries is mainly based on theory and country case studies. We test the hypothesis of a mobility transition from a comparative perspective by analyzing the evolution of different types of internal migration across the settlement ...
Mathias Lerch +2 more
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Knowledge Externalities, Agglomeration Economies, and Employment Growth in Dutch Cities [PDF]
This paper extends the work of Glaeser et al.(1992) by looking at effects of agglomeration economies on employment growth in Dutch city-industries and in very small (postal) zip code-industries in the Dutch province of South-Holland.
Gerking, S.D. +2 more
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Agglomeration economies and the location of new information and communication technology (ICT) firms in the Netherlands [PDF]
In 2000, the world wide, rapid employment growth in the ICT-sector came to an end. Knowledge-intensive ICT-firms and -sectors in the Netherlands confirmed to this negative development trend as well. The life-cycle of the ICT-sector appears to reach a new
Atzema, Oedzge, van Oort, Frank
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Study on the economic disparity and convergence of urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River [PDF]
, 2017 Chao Wen, Jingjing Chen
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A Free, Open-Source Tool for Identifying Urban Agglomerations using Point Data
, 2015 Jennifer Day +3 more
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Research on Geospatial Association of the Urban Agglomeration around the South China Sea Based on Marine Traffic Flow [PDF]
, 2018 Xianzhe Zhang, Yanming Chen, Manchun Li
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Commercial Revitalization in Low-Income Urban Communities: General Tax Incentives vs. Direct Incentives to Developers [PDF]
This paper proposes a commercial development model, based on Fujita's (1988) monopolistic competition model of spatial agglomeration, to examine stores' decisions to enter urban communities.
Zhou, Li
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