EIZ Working Papers, No. 6, 2017.
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Sources of productivity differentials in manufacturing in post-transition urban South-East Europe
Katarina Bačić
; Knowledge Network Ltd.
Ivana Rašić Bakarić
orcid.org/0000-0002-5157-9134
; The Institute of Economics, Zagreb
Sunčana Slijepčević
orcid.org/0000-0001-6185-4921
; The Institute of Economics, Zagreb
Abstract
The paper analyses the effects of urbanization and localisation economies on manufacturing firms’ productivity across urban landscapes in post-transition South-East European (SEE) countries. Fixed-effects panel data estimations on a large sample of firms show that the factors accounting for productivity advantages of manufacturing firms in urban post-transition SEE are related to the firms and to the environment in which these firms operate. Firms located in diversified cities benefit from a productivity premium generated in this type of agglomeration, while no evidence was found that the relative specialization across industries has any effect on firm productivity levels.
Keywords
city; manufacturing; total factor productivity; post-transition South-East Europe
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188762
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Publication date:
6.11.2017.
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