Brazilian municipalities: Agglomeration economies and development levels in 1997 and 2007

Catela, Eva Yamila da Silva; Gonçalves, Flávio de Oliveira; Porcile, Gabriel

doi:10.18356/8998a689-en

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“…In Latin America, empirical literature in this field is scarce. Saito and Gopinath [49] for Chile, Da Silva Catela et al [50] for Brazil, Pereira and Soloaga [51] for Mexico, and Guevara et al [52] in Ecuador, analyze the incidence of agglomeration economies on the growth of labor productivity. In contrast, only Escobar-Méndez [53] and Cota [54] analyze the incidence of agglomeration economies on the growth of manufacturing employment for Mexico.…”

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confidence: 99%

Agglomeration Economies: An Analysis of the Determinants of Employment in the Cities of Ecuador

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The objective of this investigation is to study the role of agglomeration economies (manufacturing) in urban employment growth, as a proxy for economic growth, between 1980 and 2010 in Ecuador. The three measures of agglomeration-specialization, diversity, and density-are tested to determine their eﬀect on employment growth in industries. The empirical analysis is based on firm- and city-level data from manufacturing activities. A model is proposed to estimate the effect of agglomeration economies on the growth of employment and a regression is conducted using instrumental variables. In particular, the two-stage least squares (2SLS) estimator is used. We conclude that localization economies measured by a specialization index have a positive impact on the growth of employment in the period analyzed. The results are similar to those obtained by other work carried out both in developed and developing countries.

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confidence: 99%

Agglomeration Economies: An Analysis of the Determinants of Employment in the Cities of Ecuador

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“…Meanwhile, Jacobs (1969) and Porter (1990) state that more competitive markets lead to more innovation, MAR-based externalities consider that a monopoly allows firms to be more innovative as they can appropriate the economic value of their investment in R&D. In the economic geography literature, a large number of studies has been devoted to analyze the agglomeration externalities in response variables other than the innovation itself. In those works, the variables of impact are the employment growth or the productivity (Glaeser et al 1992;Combes, 2000;Da Silva Catela et al, 2010;Saito and Gopinath, 2009) and it is implicitly assumed that agglomeration economies lead to innovation without measuring such an effect. is study tries to identify the explicit effect of agglomeration externalities on innovation that in other studies is simply implicit.…”

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