Firm Location Choice in Cities: Evidence from China, India, and Brazil

Kala Sridhar and Guanghua Wan

No RP2007-56, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: We use large survey data sets of firms provided by the World Bank for China, India, and Brazil—Investment Climate Surveys—to address the important question: what determines the locational choice of firms among cities in these countries. We find that capital cities in all countries are attractive for firms to locate. In India and China, labour-intensive firms tend not to locate in mid-sized or large cities, when compared with smaller ones, perhaps due to higher wage, training and attrition costs.

Keywords: Choice; Labour economics; Urban economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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