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| Author: | Guiso, L. Schivardi, F. |
| Title: | Spillovers in industrial districts |
| Journal: | Economic Journal
2007 : JAN, VOL. 117:516, p. 68-93 |
| Index terms: | industries employment manufacturing companies Italy |
| Freeterms: | spillovers |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article studies the role of social interaction (SI) in determining firms' employment adjustments (hereafter as: emp-adjs.) in industrial districts, assuming that SI matters only among geographically close and similar firms. The first test is based on the correlation btw. individual and aggregate measures of emp-adjs. The problems of self-selection and unobserved common shocks are directly addressed. The second test shows that spillovers (here as: sp-os.) give rise to amplified responses to shocks and bunching of adjs. which gives further support to the role of SI in industrial clusters, suggesting that information sp-os. are one of the channels through which they take place. |
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