Productivity and the geographic concentration of industry: The role of plant scale

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 313-330

  Wheeler, Christopher H ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Establishment size; Localization economies; Plant size wage premium

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC THEORY; ECONOMY OF SCALE; EMPLOYMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; WAGE;

EID: 33646366649     PISSN: 01660462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2005.10.004     Document Type: Article

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