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Title
Agglomeration or Selection? The Case of the Japanese Silk-Reeling Clusters, 1908-1915
Creator
Creator Name
Arimoto, Yutaka Arimoto, Yutaka
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
Hitotsubashi University
Creator Name
Nakajima, Kentaro Nakajima, Kentaro
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
Hitotsubashi University
Creator Name
Okazaki, Tetsuji Okazaki, Tetsuji
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
University of Tokyo
Editor
Contributor Name
途上国における貧困削減と制度・市場・政策 : ミクロとマクロの統合アプローチ = Poverty Reduction, Institutions, Markets, and Policies in Developing Countries : Toward a Theory of Comparative Economic Development
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
Hitotsubashi University
Key Word
Economic geography
Heterogenous firms
Industrial clusters
Productivity
JEL
R12
O18
L10
Abstract
We examine two sources of productivity improvement in the specialized industrial clusters of the early twentieth century Japanese silk-reeling industry. Agglomeration improves the productivity 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. We find no evidence confirming a right shift in the distribution in clusters or that agglomeration promotes faster productivity growth. Rather, the distribution in clusters was severely left truncated, even for younger plants. These findings imply that the plant-selection effect was the source of higher productivity in the Japanese silk-reeling clusters.
Publisher
Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Issued Date
2011-02
Language
English(eng)
Resource Type
technical report
Version Type
VoR
Is Part OfRelation -
Related Title
PRIMCED Discussion Paper Series ; No. 7
Number of Pages
29
Sponsorship
基盤研究(S) = Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)
Appears in Collections
PRIMCED Discussion Paper Series
URL
https://hdl.handle.net/10086/18972