Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/311785 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
Document de travail No. 2024-05
Publisher: 
Université du Québec à Montréal, École des sciences de la gestion (ESG UQAM), Département des sciences économiques, Montréal
Abstract: 
We construct a new dataset containing parcel sizes and building footprints of Canadian manufacturing plants and decompose industrial density (parcel size per worker) into: crowding (floorspace per worker); building height (floorspace to building footprint); and parcel coverage (building footprint to parcel size). We find that establishments occupy parcels more densely in big cities and central locations, and that larger establishments use less land per worker. Floorspace per worker is unrelated to distance from the city centre. The estimated elasticity of substitution between land- and non-land factors is small, between 0.14 to 0.42.
Subjects: 
Land use
industrial density
georeferenced data
building and parcel polygons
production function
JEL: 
R32
R14
L60
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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