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Industrial Structure and the Sources of Agglomeration Economies: Evidence from Manufacturing Plant Production
Author(s) -
Drucker Joshua
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
growth and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.657
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1468-2257
pISSN - 0017-4815
DOI - 10.1111/grow.12002
Subject(s) - economies of agglomeration , economic geography , diversity (politics) , productivity , production (economics) , industrial organization , manufacturing , business , industrial production , function (biology) , economics , economic growth , microeconomics , marketing , sociology , anthropology , keynesian economics , evolutionary biology , biology
The impacts of agglomeration and local industrial structure are examined through an analysis of establishment‐level productivity. Using micro‐level data, measures of regional industrial specialization, economic diversity, and industrial competitive structure are incorporated together into a production function system estimated cross‐sectionally for three years and three manufacturing industries in the U . S . The findings demonstrate the importance of the influences of regional industrial competitive structure and diversity on performance.