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Is Productivity Higher in British Cities?

Richard Harris, John Moffat

Journal of Regional Science, Volume: 52, Issue: 5, Pages: 762 - 786

Swansea University Author: John Moffat

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DOI (Published version): 10.1111/j.1467-9787.2012.00778.x

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This paper examines the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) using a GB plant-level data set. The main findings relate to whether spatial spillovers and “place” effects are important: plants located in cities generally perform better than plants in the same region outside of these cities;...

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Published in: Journal of Regional Science
Published: 2012
Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9787.2012.00778.x/abstract
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