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Productivity Improvement in the Specialized Industrial Clusters: The Case of the Japanese Silk-Reeling Industry

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  • Arimoto, Yutaka
  • Nakajima, Kentaro
  • Okazaki, Tetsuji

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We examine two sources of productivity improvement in the specialized industrial clusters. Agglomeration improves the roductivity of each plant through positive externalities, shifting plant-level productivity distribution to the right. Selection expels less productive plants through competition, truncating distribution on the left. By analyzing the data of the early twentieth century Japanese silk-reeling industry, we find no evidence confirming a right shift in the distribution in clusters or that gglomeration promotes faster productivity growth. These findings imply that the plant-selection effect was the source of higher productivity in the Japanese silk-reeling clusters.

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Paper provided by Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University in its series CEI Working Paper Series with number 2011-10.

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Date of creation: Dec 2011
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Keywords: Economic geography; Heterogeneous firms; Selection; Productivity;

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