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The Productivity of Cities
Abstract
I. The increase in productivity with city size, 393. — II. The labor productivity of cities, 396. — III. The contributions of Hicks-neutral productivity and capital intensity, 401. — IV. The direction of causality, 406. — V. Conclusions, 410. — Appendix A: choice of the industries included in this study, 411. — Appendix B: evidence relating to the capital-labor ratio in cities of different size, 412.
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- Authors
- Sveikauskas, L.
- Venue
- The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1975-08
- Volume
- 89
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 393
- ISSN
- 0033-5533 (ISSN-L)
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- W2069094167
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- 499
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 16.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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