RT Journal Article
T1 Agglomeration economies: an analysis of the determinants of employment in the cities of Ecuador
A1 Torres Gutiérrez, Tania Paola
A1 Correa Quezada, Ronny
A1 Álvarez García, José
A1 Del Rio Rama, María de la Cruz
K1 53 Ciencias Económicas
K1 5309 Organización Industrial y Políticas Gubernamentales
K1 5311 Organización y Dirección de Empresas
AB The objective of this investigation is to study the role of agglomeration economies (manufacturing) in urban employment growth, as a proxy for economic growth, between 1980 and 2010 in Ecuador. The three measures of agglomeration-specialization, diversity, and density-are tested to determine their effect on employment growth in industries. The empirical analysis is based on firm- and city-level data from manufacturing activities. A model is proposed to estimate the effect of agglomeration economies on the growth of employment and a regression is conducted using instrumental variables. In particular, the two-stage least squares (2SLS) estimator is used. We conclude that localization economies measured by a specialization index have a positive impact on the growth of employment in the period analyzed. The results are similar to those obtained by other work carried out both in developed and developing countries.
PB Symmetry
SN 20738994
YR 2019
FD 2019-11-16
LK http://hdl.handle.net/11093/2054
UL http://hdl.handle.net/11093/2054
LA eng
NO Symmetry, 11(11): 1421 (2019)
DS Investigo
RD 14-oct-2024