ACCOUNTING FOR INCREASING LAND-LABOUR RATIOS IN DEVELOPED COUNTRY AGRICULTURE
This paper investigates the causes of past increases in land-labour ratios and farm size by attempting to determine the contributions of factor substitution and technical change. The role of technical change in agricultural development has attracted considerable attention in development circles for some years. More recently, technical change versus factor substitution has become an issue in the US agricultural economics literature. The conventional approach followed in this study leads to the conclusion that in US wheat production the considerable increase in land-labour ratios is attributable to biased technical change rather than factor substitution.
This paper is about location decisions of Creative Industries and the role played by existent spatial distribution and agglomeration economies of these kinds of activities in order to analyse their location determinants. Our main statistical source is the REIC (Catalan Manufacturing Establishments Register), which has plant-level microdata on location of new plants. Using Count Data Models, our main results show that location determinants are quite similar between both industries and also both non-creative and creative firms are positively influenced by the specialisation level in Creative Industries of municipalities. Moreover, our results provide evidence that the unobserved â€˜creative milieuâ€™ has a limited impact on attracting firms. Keywords: creative industries, creative milieu, count data models, industrial location, agglomeration economies