Urban economies and productivity

"Uses data from the 1999 Annual Survey of Manufactures to examine how the productivity growth of manufacturing plants has been influenced by their proximity to cities, and by certain characteristics of these urban areas."@en
"Uses data from the 1999 Annual survey of manufactures to examine how the productivity growth of manufacturing plants has been influenced by their proximity to cities, and by certain characteristics of these urban areas."
"Productivity levels and productivity growth rates vary significantly over space. These differences are perhaps most pronounced between countries, but they remain acutely evident within national spaces as economic growth favors some cities and regions and not others. In this paper, the authors map the spatial variation in productivity levels across Canadian cities and model the underlying determinants of that variation. The paper has two main goals. The first is to confirm the existence, the nature and the size of agglomeration economies--that is, the gains in labour productivity related to the spatial clustering of economic activity. The second goal of the analysis was to identify the geographical extent of knowledge spillovers. This was tested for by relating the number of surrounding plants to a plant and its level of productivity.--Document."@en