Testing urbanization economies in manufacturing industries: Urban diversity or urban size?

Journal of Regional Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 585-603

  Fu, Shihe ^a,b   Hong, Junjie ^c  

^a SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; FIRM SIZE; HUMAN CAPITAL; MANUFACTURING; PRODUCTIVITY; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY; URBAN ECONOMY; URBANIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 79960770058     PISSN: 00224146     EISSN: 14679787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9787.2010.00702.x     Document Type: Article

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