Urban Agglomeration Effects in India: Evidence from Town-Level Data
Combining multiple data sets for India, we estimate the elasticity of wages with respect to town population and density between 1% and 2%, which is smaller than estimates in the literature based on district-level analysis. We also find that the employment share of firms with 10 or more workers—which...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The MIT Press
2017-08-01
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Series: | Asian Development Review |
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Online Access: | https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/adev_a_00100 |