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Economies of agglomeration and their relation with industrial productivity in Brazilian municipalities
Author(s) -
Raiher Augusta Pelinski
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/pirs.12487
Subject(s) - economies of agglomeration , productivity , economic geography , urbanization , spillover effect , panel data , proxy (statistics) , economics , economy , business , economic growth , econometrics , macroeconomics , machine learning , computer science
Abstract This paper aimed at analysing the effects of economies of agglomeration (location and urbanization effects) on the industrial productivity of Brazilian municipalities between 2010 and 2017, identifying their possible spillover effects on the neighbourhood as a general and also regarding regional groups. In addition, the effects of location economies of the high/medium‐high and low/medium‐low technology on productivity were analysed. To achieve the aims proposed, an index of industrial development was built as a proxy for the productivity and estimates were calculated using the spatial dynamic panel. As a result, the effects of specialization economies were identified in the country as whole, mainly in the industry with less intense technology.