The Effect of Agglomeration Economy of City Group on Employment: Evidence from Ten City Groups in China - Modern Economy

ME > Vol.8 No.5, May 2017

The Effect of Agglomeration Economy of City Group on Employment: Evidence from Ten City Groups in China ()

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DOI: 10.4236/me.2017.85046 1,630 Downloads 2,913 Views Citations

Author(s)

Qiuyang Liu, Yinxia Mi

Affiliation(s)

Institute of Industrial Economics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

ABSTRACT

With the manner of treating ten city groups in China as the space unit, the current research analyzes the micro data of Chinese industrial enterprises during the period of 1998-2007 and investigates the effects of agglomeration economy of city group on the employment in manufacturing industry by using the fixed model. Specifically, results show that, both the city group economies of scale and city group economies of scope, referring as the two types of agglomeration economy of the city group, could significantly predict employment.

KEYWORDS

City Group, Agglomeration Economy, Employment

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Liu, Q. and Mi, Y. (2017) The Effect of Agglomeration Economy of City Group on Employment: Evidence from Ten City Groups in China. Modern Economy, 8, 643-654. doi: 10.4236/me.2017.85046.

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