City scale and productivity in China

Chao Li () and John Gibson

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 131, issue C, 86-90

Abstract: We examine effects of city scale on output per worker in China. Existing studies use wrong measures of scale. Four-fifths of cities are close to the estimated productivity-maximizing scale. Output losses from sub-optimal scale are typically below 10%.

Keywords: Agglomeration; Cities; Population; Productivity; Scale; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O15 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.04.001

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