کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
984166 934151 2006 18 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Productivity and the geographic concentration of industry: The role of plant scale
کلمات کلیدی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Productivity and the geographic concentration of industry: The role of plant scale
چکیده انگلیسی

A large body of research has established a positive connection between an industry's productivity and the magnitude of its presence within locally defined geographic areas. This paper examines whether this relationship can be linked to a micro-level underpinning commonly associated with productivity: establishment scale. Looking at manufacturing industries across a sample of U.S. metropolitan areas, I find two primary results. First, average plant size increases substantially as an industry's employment in a metropolitan area rises. Second, the direct association between worker wages and local industry employment is more strongly associated with average plant size than the total number of plants, suggesting that localization economies may have significant organizational aspects.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Regional Science and Urban Economics - Volume 36, Issue 3, May 2006, Pages 313–330
نویسندگان
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