Business Environment, Economic Agglomeration and Job Creation around the World

This article looks at how economic agglomeration and the business environment affect job creation. The results suggest that economic agglomeration is strongly linked to job growth. Modern telecommunications, access to export markets, concentration of economic activity in large cities and capacity ag...

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Main Authors:	Clarke, George, Li, Yue, Xu, Lixin Colin
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2016
Subjects:	job creation business environment agglomeration firms
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24182

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spelling	okr-10986-241822021-05-25T10:54:34Z Business Environment, Economic Agglomeration and Job Creation around the World Clarke, George Li, Yue Xu, Lixin Colin job creation business environment agglomeration firms This article looks at how economic agglomeration and the business environment affect job creation. The results suggest that economic agglomeration is strongly linked to job growth. Modern telecommunications, access to export markets, concentration of economic activity in large cities and capacity agglomeration, in particular, are important. In contrast, many areas of the business environment, including corruption, macroeconomic stability and infrastructure are not robustly linked to job growth. The main exception to this is that areas of the business environment directly related to labour markets are more consistently linked to job growth than other areas of the business environment. 2016-05-02T18:07:26Z 2016-05-02T18:07:26Z 2016-01-30 Journal Article Applied Economics 0003-6846 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24182 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article
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description	This article looks at how economic agglomeration and the business environment affect job creation. The results suggest that economic agglomeration is strongly linked to job growth. Modern telecommunications, access to export markets, concentration of economic activity in large cities and capacity agglomeration, in particular, are important. In contrast, many areas of the business environment, including corruption, macroeconomic stability and infrastructure are not robustly linked to job growth. The main exception to this is that areas of the business environment directly related to labour markets are more consistently linked to job growth than other areas of the business environment.
format	Journal Article
author	Clarke, George Li, Yue Xu, Lixin Colin
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title	Business Environment, Economic Agglomeration and Job Creation around the World
title_short	Business Environment, Economic Agglomeration and Job Creation around the World
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Business Environment, Economic Agglomeration and Job Creation around the World

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