Agglomeration economies in urban manufacturing industries: A case of Japanese cities

Nakamura, Ryohei

doi:10.1016/0094-1190(85)90040-3

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“…Many young, able-bodied rural people migrate to cities to work in the link of industrial production, which aggravates the total industrial pollutant emissions by expanding industrial production. On the other hand, Nakamura [27] and Fogarty and Garofalo [28] pointed out that agglomeration economic effects would be generated and enhanced during the process of urbanization, and then brought the rise of efficiency of the industrial production. Many empirical studies also stated that urban size had a clear positive relationship with the industrial production efficiency (Moomaw [29], Ciccone [30]).…”

Section: Mechanisms Analysis and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urbanization and Its Effects on Industrial Pollutant Emissions: An Empirical Study of a Chinese Case with the Spatial Panel Model

Jin

2016

Sustainability

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Abstract:Urbanization is considered a main indicator of regional economic development due to its positive effect on promoting industrial development; however, many regions, especially developing countries, have troubled in its negative effect-the aggravating environmental pollution. Many researchers have addressed that the rapid urbanization stimulated the expansion of the industrial production and increased the industrial pollutant emissions. However, this statement is exposed to a grave drawback in that urbanization not only expands industrial production but also improves labor productivity and changes industrial structure. To make up this drawback, we first decompose the influence of urbanization impacts on the industrial pollutant emissions into the scale effect, the intensive effect, and the structure effect by using the Kaya Identity and the LMDI Method; second, we perform an empirical study of the three effects by applying the spatial panel model on the basis of the data from 282 prefecture-level cities of China from 2003 to 2014. Our results indicate that (1) there are significant reverse U-shapes between China's urbanization rate and the volume of industrial wastewater discharge, sulfur dioxide emissions and soot (dust) emissions; (2) the relationship between China's urbanization and the industrial pollutant emissions depends on the scale effect, the intensive effect and the structure effect jointly. Specifically, the scale effect and the structure effect tend to aggravate the industrial wastewater discharge, the sulfur dioxide emissions and the soot (dust) emissions in China's cities, while the intensive effect results in decreasing the three types of industrial pollutant emissions; (3) there are significant spatial autocorrelations of the industrial pollutant emissions among China's cities, but the spatial spillover effect is non-existent or non-significant. We attempt to explain this contradiction due to the fact that the vast rural areas around China's cities serve as sponge belts and absorb the spatial spillover of the industrial pollutant emissions from cities. According to the results, we argue the decomposition of the three effects is necessary and meaningful, it establishes a cornerstone in understanding the definite relationship between urbanization and industrial pollutant emissions, and effectively contributes to the relative policy making.

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Section: Mechanisms Analysis and Hypothesesmentioning

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Urbanization and Its Effects on Industrial Pollutant Emissions: An Empirical Study of a Chinese Case with the Spatial Panel Model

Jin

2016

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“…According to the production function analysis using city and prefecture data in Japan for 1979 by Nakamura (1985), the garment industry is characterized by significant localization economies. Table 1 shows that there were 66 garment enterprises in the Bingo area in 1968.…”

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Human capital, cluster formation, and international relocation: the case of the garment industry in Japan, 1968-98

Yamamura¹,

Sonobe²,

Otsuka³

2003

Journal of Economic Geography

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This article examines the changing roles of human capital in the process of the formation of industrial clusters, changes in marketing channels, and the relocation of the industrial base to less developed areas and abroad, based on a case study of a garment cluster in postwar Japan. We found among other things that experience as local traders played a major role in the cluster formation. However, formal schooling assumes greater importance in later stages, when direct transactions with large customers replaced transactions with local merchants, and the international relocation of the production base became a major management issue.

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“…Doubling of city size results in a productivity gain of 6%. Nakamura, 1985 Localization economies are Henderson, 1986 significant. Ciccone and Hall, 1996 Doubling of employment density raises labour productivity by 6% Wolf, 1997 be focused on the internalization of agglomeration economies.…”

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Urban Multifunctional Land Use: Theoretical and Empirical Insights on Economies of Scale, Scope and Diversity

Vreeker¹,

Groot²,

Verhoef³

2004

built environ

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Agglomeration economies in urban manufacturing industries: A case of Japanese cities

Cited by 269 publications

References 13 publications

Urbanization and Its Effects on Industrial Pollutant Emissions: An Empirical Study of a Chinese Case with the Spatial Panel Model

Urbanization and Its Effects on Industrial Pollutant Emissions: An Empirical Study of a Chinese Case with the Spatial Panel Model

Human capital, cluster formation, and international relocation: the case of the garment industry in Japan, 1968-98

Urban Multifunctional Land Use: Theoretical and Empirical Insights on Economies of Scale, Scope and Diversity

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