Lourens Broersma, Jan Oosterhaven, Faculty of Economics, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Regional Labour Productivity in The Netherlands - Diversification and Agglomeration Economies (assigned to theme
This paper studies the extent to which diversification and agglomeration effects account for regional differences in labour productivity levels and labour productivity growth. Using a large set of regional data for The Netherlands for 40 labour market areas between 1990-2001 we find that roughly 60% of the explained variation in regional productivity differences and 55% of the regional growth differences can be attributed to indicators of diversification and agglomeration effects. A sensitivity analysis shows that these effects are fairly robust.
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