Business Environment, Economic Agglomeration and Job Creation around the World

Clarke, George ; Li, Yue ; Xu, Lixin Colin

Taylor and Francis

关键词: job creation;    business environment;    agglomeration;    firms;   

DOI  :  10.1080/00036846.2015.1136392
RP-ID  :  105348

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This article looks at how economic agglomeration and the business environment affect job creation. The results suggest that economic agglomeration is strongly linked to job growth. Modern telecommunications, access to export markets, concentration of economic activity in large cities and capacity agglomeration, in particular, are important. In contrast, many areas of the business environment, including corruption, macroeconomic stability and infrastructure are not robustly linked to job growth. The main exception to this is that areas of the business environment directly related to labour markets are more consistently linked to job growth than other areas of the business environment.