The Role of Urban Agglomerations for Economic and Productivity Growth

Rudiger Ahrend, Alexander Lembcke and Abel Schumann

International Productivity Monitor, 2017, vol. 32, 161-179

Abstract: This article discusses how urban agglomerations – cities – affect economic productivity. It uses an internationally harmonized definition of cities that aims to capture the true extent

Keywords: Productivity; OECD; Policies; Global Productivity; Total Factor Productivity; Wages; academics; urban; population (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 O18 O47 P42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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