【摘要】This paper generates new evidence for England and Wales on the importance oflabour pooling as a source of agglomeration economies. Estimates of worker and firm produc-tivity are obtained from longitudinal worker and firm micro-data and used to test the hypothesisthat denser labour markets increase the quality of the matching between employees and employ-ers across labour markets. Our findings provide evidence supportive of a positive relationship between the quality of the employee-employer matching and the economic size of labourmarkets.

【关键词】Agglomeration economies; labour pooling; matched worker-firm longitudinal micro-data

【文献来源】Patricia C. Melo;Daniel J. Graham.Papers in Regional Studies.2014（1）