Spatial Determinants of Productivity: Analysis for the Regions of Great Britain.
This Paper uses NUTS3 sub-regional data for Great Britain to analyse the determinants of spatial variations in income and productivity. We decompose the spatial variation of earnings into a productivity effect and an occupational composition effect. For the former (but not the latter) we find a robu...
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| description | This Paper uses NUTS3 sub-regional data for Great Britain to analyse the determinants of spatial variations in income and productivity. We decompose the spatial variation of earnings into a productivity effect and an occupational composition effect. For the former (but not the latter) we find a robust relationship with proximity to economic mass, suggesting that doubling the population of working age proximate to an area is associated with a 3.5% increase in productivity in the area. We measure proximity by travel time, and show that effects decline steeply with time, ceasing to be important beyond approximately 80 minutes. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:0996cba2-9878-4752-879d-dc487f67b9542022-03-26T09:19:10ZSpatial Determinants of Productivity: Analysis for the Regions of Great Britain.Working paperhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042uuid:0996cba2-9878-4752-879d-dc487f67b954EnglishDepartment of Economics - ePrintsCEPR2004Rice, PVenables, AThis Paper uses NUTS3 sub-regional data for Great Britain to analyse the determinants of spatial variations in income and productivity. We decompose the spatial variation of earnings into a productivity effect and an occupational composition effect. For the former (but not the latter) we find a robust relationship with proximity to economic mass, suggesting that doubling the population of working age proximate to an area is associated with a 3.5% increase in productivity in the area. We measure proximity by travel time, and show that effects decline steeply with time, ceasing to be important beyond approximately 80 minutes. |
| spellingShingle | Rice, P Venables, A Spatial Determinants of Productivity: Analysis for the Regions of Great Britain. |
| title | Spatial Determinants of Productivity: Analysis for the Regions of Great Britain. |
| title_full | Spatial Determinants of Productivity: Analysis for the Regions of Great Britain. |
| title_fullStr | Spatial Determinants of Productivity: Analysis for the Regions of Great Britain. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spatial Determinants of Productivity: Analysis for the Regions of Great Britain. |
| title_short | Spatial Determinants of Productivity: Analysis for the Regions of Great Britain. |
| title_sort | spatial determinants of productivity analysis for the regions of great britain |
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