Sector structure and cluster economies: A decomposition of regional labour productivity

Regional Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 639-659

  Oosterhaven, Jan ^a   Broersma, Lourens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agglomeration economies; Labour productivity; Sectoral structure; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ECONOMETRICS; GROWTH RATE; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34548658294     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343400601120320     Document Type: Article

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