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Spatial dynamics in warehousing activities and
agglomeration economies:
lessons from the French case
Sophie Masson, Romain Petiot
Document de travail ART-Dev 2015-2
Avril 2015
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Spatial dynamics in warehousing activities
and agglomeration economies: lessons from the French case
Sophie Masson1, Romain Petiot2
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Univ. de Perpignan Via Domitia, UMR ART-Dev F-66860, Perpignan, France, 2 Associate Professor,
Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, UMR ART-Dev F-66860, Perpignan, France
Abstract
The geographical dynamic of logistics infrastructures location is characterised by concentration of
activities. This paper puts forward the hypothesis that the spatial concentration of warehousing
activities can be explained by the presence of agglomeration economies. The econometric estimation
of the link between labour productivity and density of warehousing activities conducted on French
data reveals the role of intersectoral and intrasectoral externalities. We show that agglomeration
economies have a minor impact on urbanisation and localisation diseconomies for warehousing
activities. The analysis of productivity shows that the areas with the highest job densities are not
systematically those with the highest productivity.
Keywords:
Logistics, Spatial concentration, Productivity, Agglomeration economies, Econometric estimation
Titre
Dynamiques spatiales des activités d’entreposage et économies d’agglomération : enseignements du
cas français
Résumé
Les infrastructures logistiques sont des outils majeurs de production de la logistique et marquent
fortement le territoire. Leurs dynamiques géographiques d’implantations se caractérisent par une
concentration des activités en quelques points du territoire. Ce papier pose l’hypothèse que la
concentration spatiale des activités logistiques d’entreposage peut s’expliquer par la présence
d’économies d’agglomération comprenant les bénéfices nets d’économies de localisation et
d’urbanisation. L’analyse porte sur des données françaises. Diverses mesures de la concentration de
ces activités ainsi qu’une mesure de la spécialisation des espaces dans cette activité sont proposées
confirmant la concentration spatiale logistique. L’estimation économétrique de la relation entre la
valeur de la productivité locale au coût du travail et la densité des activités d’entreposage permet
d’appréhender les externalités intersectorielles (ou économies d’urbanisation) et le rôle des
externalités intrasectorielles (économies de localisation), approchées par la spécialisation sectorielle
locale. Les résultats montrent globalement un très faible effet des économies d’agglomération et, en
outre existence de déséconomies d’urbanisation et de déséconomies de localisation s’agissant des
activités logistiques d’entreposage. Ainsi, l’analyse des différences de productivité entre espaces
géographiques montre que les productivités les plus fortes ne se trouvent pas systématiquement
dans les zones d’emploi les plus denses.
Mots-clés :
Activités logistiques d’entreposage, concentration spatiale, productivité, économies d’agglomération,
estimation économétrique
Pour citer ce document :
Masson, S., Petiot, R. 2015. Spatial dynamics in warehousing activities and
agglomeration economies: lessons from the French case. Document de travail ARTDev 2015-2.
Auteur correspondant : sophie.masson@univ-perp.fr
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Introduction
There has been a considerable increase in third-party logistics activities since the 1990s.
Between 1993 and 2009 there was a 67% increase in the number of warehousing jobs in
France, compared with 21% for jobs of all types during the same period. Logistics
infrastructure consists of large systems that produce logistics activities (Abrahamson et al.,
2003; Fender and Pimor, 2013), which create the added value resulting from the geographical
distribution of goods in order to supply production units or commercial units. The functions
of logistics infrastructure, traditionally referred to as warehouses or logistics hubs, are
changing. They perform an increasing number of high added value operations, due to the
intensification of corporate vertical disintegration. This process of outsourcing encourages the
emergence of a market for logistics service providers.
Their operational functions aside, logistics activities have an impact on local areas.
Decisions about where to locate warehouses have a marked impact on freight transport
demand, and strongly influence mode choice for freight transport (Bowen, 2008). It is
particularly useful to attempt to understand the locational decisions of logistics firms as the
demand for logistics space is expected to increase considerably in the advanced economies
(Van den Heuvel, et al., 2013a). A better understanding of the spatial dynamics that affect
logistics activities is therefore of benefit both to public decision-makers (in order to
understand what attracts logistics activities) and firms (property developers, logistics service
providers, etc.).
Nevertheless, the academic literature that deals specifically with the locational decisions of
logistics firms is meagre (Masson and Petiot, 2013; Van den Heuvel, et al., 2013a). In
addition, Hesse and Rodrigue (2004) stress that research into freight transport and logistics is
generally under-represented in regional science. While there is an abundant literature that
analyses the links between transport and regions, few studies deal with logistics from the
spatial standpoint and consider its geographical impacts even though, as part of the process of
globalisation, it impacts strongly on the organization of regions. However, in recent years the
topic has attracted more academic interest. Thus, Bowen (2008), Cidell (2010; 2011), Hesse
(2007), Hesse and Rodrigue (2004, 2006), McKinnon (2009), Wagner (2010), Dablanc and
Andriankaja (2011) and Dablanc and Rakotonarivo (2010) have investigated changes in the
geography of logistics activities, highlighting the dual process by which logistics activities are
becoming concentrated geographically at a few principal points in a country or continent
while at the same time spreading outwards into urban peripheries, and stressing the vast
amounts of land they require. Hesse and Rodrigue (2004, 2006), Jakubicek and Woudsma
(2011), Masson and Petiot (2011, 2012b), Mérenne-Schoumaker (2007), Raimbault, et al.
(2013), Savy (2006), Strale (2013a; 2013b) and Wackermann (2005) have analysed the
drivers of the spatial dynamics of logistics activities. More specifically, Dablanc and Ross
(2012), Masson (2013), Masson and Petiot (2013) and Raimbault, et al. (2013) have examined
the strategies of stakeholders in the production process of logistics spaces, and considered the
governance of these activities at local and regional level. Bhatnagar and Sohal (2005), Melo,
et al. (2009) have conducted operations research analyses of the location of logistics firms,
but their findings have been subjected to little empirical testing. Last, Sheffi (2012), Van den
Heuvel, et al. (2013a; 2013b) have studied the understanding of the spatial concentration of
logistics activities and questioned the public authorities about the effects of the colocation of
these activities.
This paper deals with the spatial dynamic of logistics warehousing activities and particular
analyses their geographical concentration. This process, while it has been described a great
many times, has rarely been measured. The aim is to better understand the principles which
govern the location of logistics activities and, in particular, their tendency to become spatially
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concentrated. We shall examine how agglomeration economies contribute to the concentration
process. In addition to attempting to minimise traditional costs, the policy which is pursued
with regard to the location of hubs also sets out to achieve economies of scale, as the
organisation of logistics depends on the creation of circuits that consolidate flows. What
advantages do these activities derive from grouping together? Do any agglomeration
economies result from their spatial concentration? The aim of the paper is thus to examine
how external economies of scale affect the spatial dynamic of logistics warehousing activities.
First, a literature review will describe the spatial dynamic of warehousing activities and its
determinants. We shall present an account of the geographical distribution and a measure of
the spatial concentration of warehousing activities in France. Second, we shall describe the
theoretical framework of the determinants of the spatial concentration of economic activities
and the estimation strategy applied in the literature to measure agglomeration effects resulting
from the concentration of economic activities. The role of intersectoral externalities
(urbanisation economies) and intrasectoral externalities (localisation economies) in generating
spatial concentration in warehousing activities is then measured.
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The spatial dynamic of warehousing activities
The location of warehousing activities is receiving an increasing amount of attention in the
literature. This highlights the existence of the spatial dynamic characterised by the two
processes of concentration and sprawl that is driven by global and local determinants (2.1).
Based on this brief literature review we shall describe the geographical distribution of
warehousing activities in France and propose a measure of their geographical concentration
(2.2).
2.1 The case of warehousing activities: major trends and determinants
The literature highlights the major trends exhibited by the spatial dynamics of logistics
activities. The first is the lasting trend to become concentrated in metropolitan areas. We can
observe that logistics establishments are clustering together within zones that are limited to a
few hundred hectares. This tendency for logistical activities to become spatially concentrated
is apparent in all developed economies, be it in the United States (Dablanc and Ross, 2012;
Cidell, 2010), the United Kingdom (McKinnon, 2009), the Netherlands (Van den Heuvel, et
al., 2013), Belgium (Strale, 2013a; 2013b) or France (Masson and Petiot, 2012b; Raimbault,
et al., 2013; Wemelbeke and Mariotte, 2007). This concentration has rarely been precisely
measured.
Researchers propose a number of different explanations for this tendency to concentrate in
the metropolitan areas. Savy (2006) highlights the fact that logistics activities cannot be
delocalised: the logistics activities that are related to local production and consumption must
be necessarily produced locally. Thus, proximity to the markets of production and
consumption is a decisive factor in the metropolitization of logistics activities. In addition to
this, Hesse and Rodrigue (2004), Bowen (2008) and Strale (2010) stress that the geography of
logistics activities is also affected by the importance of accessibility and integration within
global transport networks.
This concentration of logistics activities is also due to a process of centralisation which
leads to the construction of fewer but larger warehouses (McKinnon, 2009). It is driven by the
desire to minimise stocks (which leads to a reduction in the number of warehouses) and the
consolidation of flows (leading to an increase in the size of warehouses). It is furthermore
assisted by the fact that transport costs have remained durably low.
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Another explanation for the concentration of logistics is forces of agglomeration other than
market proximity, for example the attempt to achieve agglomeration economies (Masson and
Petiot, 2012b; 2013; Van den Heuvel et al., 2013a; 2013b). In this paper we shall explore the
way agglomeration economies affect the spatial dynamic of logistics activities. Furthermore,
the trend towards the concentration of logistics is combined with one of logistics sprawl, i.e.
an outward movement into the periphery of metropolitan areas. Cidell (2010) has performed
an empirical study of this process in the metropolitan regions of the United States and shown
there to be a trend for logistics to move towards the outskirts of the central city. The same
trend has also been measured in the Paris region by Dablanc and Andriankaja (2011), and it
has also been observed, in particular, in the Atlanta Megaregion (Dablanc and Ross, 2012).
This process is partly explained by the greater availability and lower price of land in
peripheral areas, which makes it possible to build ever larger warehouses. Bowen (2008) takes
the view that the growing preference shown by logistics activities for the outskirts of
metropolitan areas is the outcome of better access to transport networks, which has become a
vital factor in the globalised economy, and the important role of trade between distant
economies.
Last, the move into peripheral areas is explained by the specific nature of logistical urban
planning which comes into conflict with residential urban planning (Bahoken and Raimbault,
2012): the NIMBY effect leads local governments to move polluting logistics sites into the
outskirts.
2.2 An evaluation of the concentration of warehousing activities in France
The concentration of warehousing activities in France can be measured from a number of data
sources. The Sitadel1 database shows the extraordinary expansion that has taken place since
the end of the 1970s. Thus, in 2011, France had approximately 100 million m² of logistics
space, 35 to 40% of which was in warehouses of more than 5000m² (data from Sitadel 2011).
While recently there has been an overall reduction in the number of warehouses built
annually, those built now are larger. In less than 10 years, the mean size of warehouses has
increased by a factor of more than four (DTZ, 2011). The largest warehouses (with a surface
area of over 35,000m²) account for a tenth of the total number of warehouses but almost 40%
of the total surface area (Commissariat général au développement durable, 2012).
Furthermore, the downward trend in stock levels that results from just-in-time management
tends to be accompanied by a reduction in the surface areas that are dedicated exclusively to
warehousing, this reduction is in reality less than proportional to the reduction in storage
needs (Petiot and Masson, 2011). Furthermore, conventional warehousing space is being
partially replaced by areas used for consolidation (crossdocking) and adding value to goods
(co-manufacturing, co-packing) (Becker, 2003). Warehouses are gradually taking on new
roles which are required by changes in corporate strategy resulting from the implementation
of Supply Chain Management.
Recently created warehouses are mainly located in large urban centres. It is very clear that
logistics activities are very much concentrated in certain parts of the country. Three regions of
France (Ile-de-France, Rhône-Alpes and Nord-Pas-de-Calais) contain more than a third of the
country’s total surface area of warehouses (see Map 1 and Appendix 1). The Ile-de-France
and Rhône-Alpes contain 28% of the nation’s logistics jobs and five regions (Ile-de-France,
Rhône-Alpes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Centre and Picardie) account for 54% of the nation’s
logistics jobs. Warehouse space is also concentrated. Six regions contain more than 50% of
the total warehouse surface area, although they only account for 32% of Metropolitan
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Base Sitadel: Information and automated processing system for basic data on dwellings and premises.
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France’s surface area. This concentration of logistics therefore leads to a high degree of
spatial differentiation as regards logistics services, with logistics activities concentrated in
metropolitan areas (the metropolitan areas of the North of France and the Paris, Lyon and
Marseille regions), transit corridors (the Rhône valley, the Lorraine corridor), infrastructure
junction points and the main seaports, while other areas have a very low logistics density
(Savy, 2006).
Map 1.
Distribution of warehousing surface area per region in 2010 (Data from Sitadel)
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Unit: m
Sources: Masson and Petiot (2012a)
We shall use a measure of logistical concentration based on the Unistatis jobs database
held by the Pôle emploi Directorate for Studies and Statistics2. This provides information on
establishments and their workforce according to the location (département-municipality),
principal economic activity (APE code 3, 2008 NAF4 code rev. 2) and also gives the size of
the establishment. We collected the jobs data between 1993 and 2009, for logistics activities
for both the regions and the départements of France. We have examined in particular the
warehousing activities that come under NAF 2008, rev. 2 category 52.1 "Warehousing and
storage".
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Pôle emploi is the French State body responsible for employment. Its data do not cover all members of the workforce and exclude
individuals, in particular, self–employed workers and civil servants, who do not pay contributions to ASSEDIC (ASSociation pour
l’Emploi dans l’Industrie et le Commerce) which pays out unemployment benefit to jobseekers. Within its limits it is an extremely
reliable source of data.
3
APE (Principal Activity Exercised): the INSEE (the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies) provides all
companies and each of their establishments with a code characterising their principal activity on the basis of the French classification
of activities (NAF rev. 2).
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NAF (French Classification of Activities): a code assigned by the INSEE to each economic sector. It enables the Institute to assign
an APE Code to every French firm and each of its establishments. NAF 2008 rev. 2 was introduced in January 2008 as part of the
process of harmonising European classifications in the framework of NACE (Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the
European Community).
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Table 1 shows that four regions of France contained 49.9%, 52.9% and 46.6% of
warehousing jobs in 1993, 2000 and 2009 respectively. While the Ile-de-France, Rhône-Alpes
and Nord-Pas-de-Calais regions are tending to maintain their lead over other regions with
regard to warehousing activities, it is noteworthy that the Centre region is becoming
increasingly differentiated from the others, having displaced Provence-Alpes Côte-d’Azur to
join the "top 4" most important warehousing regions from the year 2000 onwards. For the last
10 years, Centre has been France’s fourth most important region for the creation of
warehouses. It is geographically near to Ile-de-France, and has the benefits of a central
location without its disadvantages (saturated infrastructure and land scarcity). Thus, the
spatial dynamic of establishments seems to be marked by a transfer to the outer ring of the
Paris basin (Centre, Picardie).
Table 1.
Percentage of warehousing activities in the regions of France (1993, 2000, 2009)
% of total no. of
Variation
warehousing jobs
1993
2000
2009 1993-2009
Ile-de-France
19,00%
19.3%
17.1%
-1.9%
Rhône-Alpes
12.2%
11.3%
11.1%
-1.2%
Nord-Pas-de-Calais
9.5%
10.9%
9.5%
0,00%
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
9.2%
6.1%
6,00%
-3.2%
Centre
6.9%
11.4%
8.9%
2,00%
Picardie
4.86%
4.9%
7.4%
2.5%
Total
61.7%
63.7%
60,00%
-1.67%
Sources: Masson and Petiot (2012a). Unistatis employment data
Rank
1993
1
2
3
4
5
7
2000
1
3
4
5
2
6
2009
1
2
3
6
4
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Geographical concentration is defined as the distribution of the importance of the regions
in a specific economic sector. A given sector is “concentrated” if a large proportion of its
production is conducted in a limited number of regions. Several indicators are available for
measuring the spatial concentration of economic activities (Krugman, 1991a; 1991b; Ellison
and Glaeser, 1997; Combes, et al., 2006; Maurel and Sédillot, 1999; Brülhart, 2001; Albert, et
al., 2011; Houdebine, 1999; Hallet, 2000; Goschin, et al., 2009; Aiginger and Leitner, 2002;
Barlet, et al., 2010; Mouhoud, 2010). We have chosen to use the Hirschman-Herfindahl index
and the Gini index (see Appendix 2). This decision was based on the performance of these
indices in relation to the data are available to us. It is possible to supplement the measurement
of geographical concentration by a measurement of regional specialisation which corresponds
to the concentration of the activities of one or more sectors in an area. The index of
specialisation we selected is Hoover’s index (also known as the Hoover-Balassa index) (see
Appendix 3).
Our analysis of logistical specialisation covers the period 1993-2009 and is based on the
computation of two Hoover-Balassa indices, the first for regions and the second for
départements. On this basis, we have constructed several maps showing specialisation. Maps
2 and 3 show the change in the regional specialisation of warehousing activities between 1993
and 2009.
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Map 2.
Degree of specialisation of the French regions for jobs in warehousing activities (1993)
Sources: Masson and Petiot (2012a). UNISTATIS employment data
Map 3.
Degree of specialisation of the French regions for jobs in warehousing activities (2009)
Sources: Masson and Petiot (2012a). UNISTATIS employment data
It can be seen that in 1993, the Haute-Normandie region had a very high level of
specialisation, as did, though to a lesser degree, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Provence-Alpes-Côte
d’Azur, Alsace and Rhône-Alpes. In 2009, the same specialisation structure can be observed
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except for the Rhône-Alpes region which no longer seems to be more specialised than the rest
of France. However, the specialisation index of the Picardie and Centre regions has increased
sharply. This relative specialisation is explained by a number of factors: the presence of major
seaports (Le Havre and Rouen in Haute-Normandie and Marseille in Provence-Alpes-Côte
d’Azur) which encourage trade and require supporting logistics activities, location on a border
or a major trade corridor (Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Alsace and Rhône-Alpes), and closeness to a
zone of very dense population and economic activity (Ile-de-France).
Map 4.
Degree of specialisation of the French départements for warehousing jobs (1993)
Sources: Masson et Petiot (2012a). UNISTATIS employment data.
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Map 5.
Degree of specialisation of the French départements for warehousing jobs (2009)
Sources: Masson and Petiot (2012a). UNISTATIS employment data.
Observing specialisation in warehousing activities at département level reveals a number
of interesting spatial dynamics. In 1993, the highly specialised départements were those in the
Haute-Normandie region (départements 27 and 76 on Map 5) as a result of the activity of the
port of Le Havre, the Départements in the outer ring of the Paris basin (60, 77, 78, 91), in
particular Loiret (45), and the Départements in the Rhône Valley (13, 26, 84, 69). This high
degree of specialisation may be explained by the presence of a large amount of transport
infrastructure, a high concentration of population and activities (the effect of markets and
size) and location on a trade and transit corridor. In 2009, we can observe an increase in the
specialisation of the départements in the outermost ring of the Paris basin and a confirmation
of concentration in the Rhône Valley départements.
We have analysed the geographical concentration of three categories of logistics activities
over the period 1993-2009 initially on the basis of regions, then on the basis of départements.
The first category is so-called “extended logistics activities” and covers all transport and
logistics activities (i.e. section H "Transport warehousing" in NAF 2008 rev.2). The second
category is "extended hub activities" which covers activities associated with passage through
a logistics hub (this combines all the activities in category 52 of NAF 2008 rev. 2
"Warehousing and auxiliary transport services"). Last, the category that we have already
considered above contains only “warehousing activities” Table 2 sets out the results we
obtained with the absolute (Herfindhal) and relative (Gini) indexes of concentration and the
regional breakdown. Table 3 shows those obtained with the breakdown into départements.
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Table 2.
Concentration of logistics activities - for data on regions (1993, 2000, 2009)
Annual variation
Activity
Index
1993
2000
2009
1993-2009
(2000-2009)
Extended logistics
activities
Extended hub
activities
Warehousing
activities
Gini
0.11
0.1
0.06
Herfindhal
0.09
0.08
0.1
Gini
0.18
0.16
0.15
Herfindhal
0.11
0.11
0.1
Gini
0.25
0.27
0.24
0.1
0.1
0.08
Herfindhal
-3.66%
(-5.02%)
0.71%
-1.44%
-1.24%
(-1.11%)
-0.46%
(-0.98%)
-0.29%
(-1.13%)
-0.76%
(-1.65%)
Sources: Masson and Petiot (2012a). Données emplois Unistatis.
From Table 2 we can draw some preliminary conclusions about the concentration of
logistics activities in the regions of France. The tendency for concentration as measured by
the Herfindhal index increased slightly over the period in the case of extended logistics
activities. The relative index changed in a distinct manner, and shows a reduction in the
concentration of logistics activities. While these activities have tended to become more
concentrated (rising absolute indices), their geographical distribution has, however, drawn
away from the mean for other sectors (reduction in the relative index). This reduction is very
marked in the case of the extended logistics activities, which shows that transport and logistics
activities tended to spread over the whole national territory during the period 1993-2009 (and
to an even more marked degree in the period 2000-2009). This followed the application of
deregulation policies in the European transport sector in the 1980s and increased outsourcing
of transport and logistics activities. However, the reduction in concentration is much lower for
extended hub activities and much higher for warehousing activities which are more
concentrated at regional level than logistics and transport activities in general.
Table 3.
Concentration of logistics activities - for data on départements (1993, 2000, 2009)
Activity
Index
1993
Extended logistics Gini
activities
Herfindhal
Extended hub
activities
2009
Annual variation
1993-2009
0.2
0.22
0.85%
0.02
0.02
0.36%
Gini
0.33
0.32
-0.31%
Herfindhal
0.03
0.02
-0.57%
Warehousing
Gini
0.42
0.43
activities
Herfindhal
0.03
0.02
Sources: Masson and Petiot (2012a). Unistatis job data.
0.18%
-1.34%
In contrast, when concentration is measured on the basis of the breakdown into
départements, it tends to become more stable, or even increase (see Table 3). It can also be
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seen that the concentration at département level is proportionally greater than that observed at
regional level. Last, warehousing activities are relatively concentrated, and there is a slight
tendency for them to become more so.
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The role of agglomeration economies in the spatial dynamic of logistics warehousing
activities: theoretical framework and econometric analysis
Does the concentration of logistical activities increase their productivity? This question
echoes one which has attracted much interest in the field of regional economics, namely
whether spatial concentration increases efficiency, and if so, under what circumstances. A
major line of research focuses on the role of agglomeration economies with regard to the
concentration dynamic of economic activities. Its goal is to verify the influence of
agglomeration economies (3.1). We shall present the data and identify some relevant variables
with a view to conducting empirical tests to confirm the role of agglomeration economies on
the concentration of logistics warehousing activities (3.2.). Based on specifications derived
from the empirical literature, we shall then estimate the role of urbanisation economies and
localisation economies (3.3).
3.1 Spatial concentration and agglomeration economies: the theoretical framework
Generally speaking, the geographical location of a sector can be explained by three types of
factors, the relative importance of which depends on the type of activity (Mouhoud, 2010):
 the existence of tangible and intangible benefits that are to the advantage of the sector in
question;

the existence of positive externalities;

the ratio between firms and clients.
The concentration of logistics activities is the outcome, in particular, of the need to benefit
from externalities5. Agglomeration economies are comparative productivity advantages which
a set of firms receives in one region rather than another, because of its size and structure. The
hypothesis that the geographical agglomeration of economic activities generates productivity
gains is based on Marshall’s conception of externalities (1890) (see Catin, 1991, 1995, 1997;
Fujita and Krugman, 2004; Fujita and Thisse, 1996; 2002; Glaeser et al., 1992; Rosenthal and
Strange, 2004). In terms of productivity level, the effectiveness of concentration is interpreted
as an economy of scale that is external to the firm and internal to the region in question.
Traditionally, agglomeration economies are divided into two types: urbanisation economies
and localisation economies.
Urbanisation economies are due to population concentration and the presence of a large
number of firms from different sectors in a location: these economies are external to the firm
and the industry to which it belongs, that is to say they are intersectoral agglomeration
economies. The presence of a large number of sectors of activity in a given zone increases the
frequency of technological transfers from one sector to another. Industrial diversity can foster
the exchange of ideas and technology which generates innovation and higher productivity.
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Baudewyns (2005), in a brief overview of the determinants of the spatial agglomeration of economic activities, mentions (i) the
interaction between transport costs and economies of scale (Krugman, 1991b), (ii) technological externalities, and (iii) pecuniary
externalities resulting from interactions with the market and strategic factors.
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These economies are also referred to as Jacobs externalities (Jacobs 1969). Little research has
analysed the effect of urbanisation economies on a sector-by-sector basis. Nevertheless, there
are exceptions, for example the work by Brülhart and Mathys (2008) and Foster and Stehrer
(2009). This research reveals that urbanisation had significantly positive effects in all the
sectors that were considered apart from agriculture (Foster and Stehrer, 2009), for which
density within a region has a negative impact on productivity.
Location economies are due to the presence of a large number of firms belonging to the
same industry in the same geographical area. These are intrasectoral agglomeration
economies. The benefits associated with the proximity of other producers depend on the
sharing of facilities and public goods, access to a larger range of suppliers and a specialised
pool of labour as well is the sharing of risks. Spatial proximity facilitates immediate access to
competitors in the same sector and allows firms to keep abreast of market information for
their negotiations with clients and suppliers. MAR (Marshall-Arrow-Romer) externalities also
exist, which can also be known as specialisation economies, which involve the way sectoral
specialisation affects the innovation brought about by the spatial concentration of firms
belonging to the same sector of activity, in which a network of ties forms between backward
and forward of a given sector (Arrow, 1962; Marshall, 1890; Romer, 1986). This encourages
spillover of intrasectoral knowledge created by the interaction between economic agents
which share information and common knowledge. In the case of warehousing activities,
which require a relatively unskilled workforce and whose technology is relatively
standardised, externalities of this type are doubtless low, not to say non-existent. Ultimately, it
is considered that the pressures of competition which oblige firms in a given sector to
innovate or disappear also lead to an increase in productivity. The last type are Porter’s
externalities (1990) based on the theory of local innovation clusters which states that growth
is driven by local intrasectoral competition between firms in a cluster. Brulhart and Mathys
(2008) have shown that most of the time the effects of the sector itself are negative, which
suggests that there are congestion diseconomies (except in financial services where density in
the sector has strong positive impacts on productivity).
The literature also contains a wide range of analytical and statistical work that attempts to
identify the links between productivity and the economic size of regions. One important line
of research attempts to verify the influence of agglomeration economies and their variety on,
usually industrial, productivity: Catin (1991, 1995, 1997) on the French regions, Ciccone
(2002) on the European regions, Ciccone and Hall (1996) on the American counties, Combes
(2000), Combes, et al. (2006), Combes, et al. (2008; 2011) on industries and services in
France at the employment area6 level, Rosenthal and Strange (2001) on American industries.
Melo, et al. (2009) have performed a meta-analysis of this work. As yet, no study has dealt
with the specific sector of logistics activities.
3.2 The situation and the selected variables
3.2.1 The sample
Our data were sourced from the most recent annual survey of transport firms which was
conducted in 2007 by the Department for Observation and Statistics (SOeS) which is part of
the Commission for Sustainable Development at the French Ministry for the Environment,
Energy, Sustainable Development and Regional Planning. The data related to French firms
operating in metropolitan France whose head offices were also in metropolitan France. They
come under section H "Transport and warehousing" of NAF rev. 2008. The database contains
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An employment area is a geographical area within which most of the labour force lives and works, and in which establishments can
find the main part of the labour force necessary to occupy the offered jobs.
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13,396 observations. As our study only concerns warehousing activities, we have restricted
ourselves to category 52.1 "Warehousing and storage" which contains the sub-categories
52.10A "Refrigerated warehousing and storage" and 52.10B" Non-refrigerated warehousing
and storage". Our basic sample thus contained 682 observations, i.e. 112 refrigerated
warehousing firms and 570 non-refrigerated warehousing firms. Database clean-up was
performed to remove duplicates, observations with no data or without data on the variables
which were of interest for our study, namely production and production factors, and left us
with just 495 observations. Finally, as our aim was to explore the link between the
productivity of the firm and its spatial location we were forced to eliminate 50 observations
that related to multi-establishment firms. The database we finally worked with was made up
of 445 clearly localised single-establishment firms (73 refrigerated warehousing firms and
372 non-refrigerated warehousing firms, or respectively 16 and 84% of the sample we
analysed).
3.2.2 The selected variables
Analysis of the productivity of a firm is performed on the basis of the ratio between the output
(the amount of production or added value) and the inputs (all the factors of production that are
mobilised to create this production or added value). The inputs are of two types: labour or
capital.
 Output
The database we obtained from the national survey of firms contained information about the
level of production, expressed in thousands of Euros. This is the value of the goods and
services created and invoiced by the firm during the financial year, in other terms its turnover
during the financial year. We have confined ourselves to this last production variable in order
to estimate the firm’s output.
 Inputs
Labour
Information concerning labour may be either physical (total full-time workforce in each firm)
or monetary (payments made for each observation). The shortage of reliable information
concerning workforces has led us to use the net cost of labour, namely the sum of salaries and
social security contributions.
Capital
In order to measure inputs, we considered both tangible assets (land, warehouses, technical
facilities, transport equipment, etc.) and intangible assets (goodwill, customer portfolio, right
to renew a lease, etc.). The database provides the level of each type of asset at the beginning
and end of the financial year. We then used these two items of information to construct a
mean variable for the financial year. Amongst other factors, we took account of the
intermediate consumption that enabled the firm to achieve its production during the financial
year. This consumption includes, in particular, rent paid by the firm in order to exercise its
activity, which allowed us to take account of the fact that firms often rent their warehouses.
 The dependent variable
Our goal was to test for agglomeration economies (urbanisation and localisation economies)
due to the location of logistics warehousing activities. We have postulated that if such
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agglomeration economies exist, they express the advantage to firms of concentrating in the
same area, which can be measured by an impact on the performance of firms which we
measure on the basis of productivity gains. It is reasonable to test these agglomeration
economies with regard to 3 productivity indicators: the productivity of labour, the
productivity of capital and the total productivity of the factors of production.
In the case of the productivity of labour, we have constructed a productivity indicator that
takes account of the cost of labour. This corresponds to the amount of production per unit of
salary. The productivity of capital includes all the resources used for production with the
exception of labour, namely assets (tangible and intangible) and intermediate consumption.
Measuring the productivity of capital however poses some problems resulting from the
quality of the information in the database. As a corollary, the total productivity of the factors
which expresses the production resulting from all the production factors at play, namely
labour and capital, cannot be explained by our analysis in view of the lack of reliable data
about the productivity of capital. We shall therefore estimate the impact of location on the
productivity of warehousing firms on the basis of single-factor productivity relating to the
cost of labour.
 The explanatory variables
Urbanisation economies
Urbanisation economies were estimated by evaluating the effect of job density in the
employment zone in which the establishment is located. This is an indicator of the economic
activity of all the sectors present in the zone.
Localisation economies
Localisation economies were estimated by evaluating the effect of the job density in a given
sector in the employment zone. As a measure it can be refined by testing the effects of
intrasectoral job density in the broad sense and job density for section H "Transport and
warehousing". It allows us to test the effect of the proximity of all the activities in the
transport and logistics sector. In addition, we have tested the effects of intrasectoral job
density in the strict sense by limiting the analysis of job density to category 52.1
"Warehousing and storage" in the employment zone.
Furthermore, the effects of the employment area’s specialisation in jobs in section H and in
jobs in category 52.1 compared to jobs in section H were estimated in order to test the effect
of the intensity of jobs in the sector on the productivity of firms.
3.2.3 Statistical description of the data
The descriptive analysis of the data that make up our sample (see Table 4) highlights the high
degree of dispersion between the observations, whether they relate to production, full-time
equivalent workforce, or pay. Our survey contained a large variety of economic situations
ranging from very small firms (37% of the firms had fewer than 9 employees) to large firms
(2% of the firms had more than 250 employees). Very small and small firms are prevalent
(83% of firms had fewer than 49 employees). This variety within the sample is also present in
the cost of labour productivity, although to a less marked degree.
Density variables exhibited a high degree of dispersion, in particular job density for sector
H. This variable describes a wide variety of economic situations from employment zones with
few jobs in the sector to employment zones where the sector has a strong presence. The
situation is less straightforward in the case of job density in warehousing and storage
activities which seems low in the employment areas in our sample. Nevertheless, the transport
sector in the employment areas in question seems, on average, to account for a higher
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proportion of warehousing and storage jobs than the transport sector does of jobs in all the
other sectors.
Table 4.
Descriptive statistics of the variables in the employment areas
N=445
Data
Production (thousand Euros)
Workforce (Full-time equivalent)
Payments (thousand Euros)
Dependent variable
Cost of labour productivity
Explanatory variables
Job density
Job density for Section H
Job density group 52.1
Job specialisation in Section H
Job specialisation in group 52.1
2
Size of employment zone (km )
Minimum Maximum
1st
Quartile
Median
3rd
Quartile
Mean
11
1
3
60,185
501
13,268
719
7
217
1,781
15
515
4,378
37
1,276
0.49
74.23
2.34
3.39
5.07
4.76
8.03
0.16
0.00
0.04
0.02
1,831.43
297.87
1.47
20.52
38.79
43.41
1.98
0.02
0.78
0.63
78.97
3.88
0.06
0.91
1.04
250.04
15.55
0.20
1.04
2.29
183.87
13.14
0.15
1.29
1.82
122.6
8,752
1,121.30
2,320.40
4,413.40
Variance
(n-1)
3,761.17 34,674,581.26
32.58
2,892.11
1,081.88 2,762,261.65
Stand. dev. Coefficient
(n-1)
of variation
5,888.51
53.78
1,662.01
1.56
1.65
1.53
35.84
5.99
1.26
69,766.10
1,207.15
0.06
1.47
10.07
264.13
34.74
0.24
1.21
3.17
1.44
2.64
1.57
1.07
1.74
2,841.82 4,461,816.21
2,112.30
0.74
Analysis of the geographical distribution of the dependent variable, i.e. cost of labour
productivity, gives some counter-intuitive findings. Maps 6 and 7 show that the productivity
of warehousing is not at its highest in the regions with the greatest density of warehouses. For
example, the mean productivity of the warehouses in Ile-de-France is not the highest. While
the distribution of productivity according to size of urban area (Graph 1) shows a slight
tendency for productivity to increase with size of urban area (except for group 05 municipality in an urban area with 35,000 to 49,999 inhabitants), it also appears to show that
above a certain critical size (municipality in an urban area with at least 500,000 inhabitants),
productivity falls as the size of the urban area increases. We can therefore make the
hypothesis that congestion effects have an impact when an urban area exceeds a certain size.
The distribution of the cost of labour productivity according to the size of the employment
zone (Graph 2) does not reveal any really significant trend.
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Map 6.
Regional distribution of single establishment
firms in category 52.1 "Warehousing and
storage"
Map 7.
Regional distribution of the productivity of
labour in single establishment firms in
category 52.1 "Warehousing and storage"
Graph 1.
Distribution of productivity at the labour cost
according to size of urban area
Graph 2.
Distribution of productivity at the labour
cost according to size of employment area
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9
Productivité moyenne au coût du travail
Productivité moyenne au coût du travail
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
5
4
3
2
1
1
0
0
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
1
10
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Code taille Zone d'Emploi
Code taille Aire Urbaine
Key: Urban Area Size Code (ad hoc classification)
1 – EZ with less than 20,000 jobs;
2 – EZ with between 20,000 and 34,999 jobs;
5 – EZ with between 100,000 and 149,999 jobss;
9 – EZ of Lyon;
10 – EZ of Paris.
Key: Urban Area Size Code (INSEE classification)
00 - Municipality not in an urban area;
01 - Municipality in an urban urea with less than 15,000 inhabitants;
02 - Municipality in an urban area with between 15,000 and 19,999 inhabitants;
03 - Municipality in an urban area with between 1 20,000 and 24,999 inhabitants;
04 - Municipality in an urban area with between 25,000 and 34,999 inhabitants.;
05 - Municipality in an urban area with between 35,000 and 49,999 inhabitants;
06 - Municipality in an urban area with between 50,000 and 99,999 hab.;
09 - Municipality in an urban area with between 500,000 and 9,999,999 hab.;
10 - Municipality in Paris urban area
Sources: graphs anf maps constructed using data from EAE 2006
3.3 Estimation method and empirical results
The most practical estimation approach for quantifying the productivity gains associated with
an increase in the geographical concentration of activities is the reduced form with log-linear
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specifications (Combes et al., 2006; Combes and Lafourcade, 2012)7. The specifications we
have adopted make it possible to differentiate between the effects of urbanisation externalities
and those of locational externalities. We have used a Cobb-Douglas function to model each of
the relationships. This allows us to estimate the impact on cost of labour productivity as an
elasticity using the ordinary least squares method.
3.3.1 Testing the effects of urbanisation economies
In the literature, it is the density of economic activities rather than the overall size of the
market which is seen as decisive for productivity. The reason for this is that the overall size of
the market is more sensitive to the spatial division which is applied while density is a more
continuous variable (Combes and Lafourcade, 2012). The first paper that considered the
impact of job density on the productivity of firms was that by Ciccone and Hall (1996).
Following their example, and like much other research, we have used a log-linear
relationship to measure urbanisation economies, based on the link between job density in the
employment area and productivity at the cost of labour8 :
(1)
where
denotes the productivity at the labour cost for firm located in employment area
and
denotes the job density in employment zone . The term is a constant, is the
coefficient of elasticity to be estimated and
an error term that expresses everything that
cannot be explained by the density. The use of logarithms means we can estimate directly the
elasticity of the dependent variable, i.e. the percentage variation in productivity brought about
by a 1% increase in density. Specification (1) therefore allows us to evaluate the proportion of
the differences in productivity that can be attributed to density differences between zones, or
the potential impact on productivity of an increase or reduction in the density in a zone.
Although the correlation between the logs of job density and the surface area of the
employment areas is fairly low (- 0.23), the densest employment areas nevertheless tend to be
the smallest. Consequently, as the dispersion of the surface areas of employment areas is quite
high, we have, following Barbesol and Briant (2008), included the surface area of the
employment area in specification (1) in order to estimate the influence of the size of the
employment area and the effect of density in the case of a given surface area. We have thus
tested a measure after adding the surface area of the employment area as a variable:
(2)
where
denotes the surface area of employment area .
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Other types of approach have recently been adopted to test the effects of agglomeration economies (Combes and Lafourcade, 2012)
such as so-called structural forms based on the equilibrium relationships predicted by the models of the New Economic Geography.
These link productivity, or more precisely salaries, to the geographical concentration of activities. In most cases they have been
derived from monopolistic competition models like the Dixit-Stiglitz model (Dixit and Stiglitz, 1977), or the seminal models
developed by Krugman (1991b) and Krugman and Venables (1995).
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The theoretical foundations of this specification have been described by Combes et al. (2008). The study in question assumed that
firms in all regions and sectors produce at constant marginal costs. These costs take account of salaries and the cost of the other
inputs. It is assumed that the technology and the efficiency of work are specific to each firm. The firm’s profit is the sum of its sales
on the markets minus the cost of the production factors and trade-related costs (including transport) incurred in order to supply
external markets. The firm’s sales correspond to its volume of production and the profit derived from the sale of each unit, which we
could call, perhaps mistakenly, the "price" of the product (for the firm). This price represents the mean benefit the firm derives from
each unit sold on the destination markets, net of transport costs and intermediate consumption. This “price” is higher when the firm
is positioned in or near a large market as such proximity reduces its supply costs. On the other hand, it is lower when competition is
high, as is the case on large markets. This effect counteracts the first, and acts as a factor of dispersion. It can be shown that the first
order condition for the optimum use of labour by firms, namely when each employee’s nominal salary is equal to their marginal
productivity, gives a salary equation that can be used to estimate agglomeration effects. The nominal salary given by this equation is
directly proportional to the worker’s individual skills and increases with the technological level of the firm and its “price” and
decreases with the cost of the inputs other than work. The density of a zone can therefore increase the productivity of the firms
located there, either because it improves their technology or the efficiency of their workforce, or because it increases the price of
their goods, or alternatively because it reduces the price of their inputs because of the transport cost savings due to their greater
closeness to purchasers (consumers or sub-contractors). On the other hand, density can also reduce the productivity of firms by
creating conditions that are conducive to the appearance of congestion on the market for some inputs, leading to an increase in their
cost.
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Tables 5 and 6 set out the results of the regressions. The data for the employment area of Paris
can interfere with the interpretation of the results because of its very high job density. We
have therefore conducted tests of two different types, first with the full database and second
with the full database minus the Paris employment area. The correlation between the
logarithms of the job density and the surface area of the employment areas is in this case very
strong (- 0,45).
Table 5.
Estimations of the effects of urbanisation
according to specification (1)
Dependent variable:
ln PTiz
N
Constant a
Full
Database
(0.128)
(< 0.0001)
ln DEz
-0.0619**
-0.0835**
(0.024)
(0.00565)
445
1.564
Table 6.
Estimations of the effects of urbanisation
Database minus
the Paris ZE
415
1.646***
Dependent variable:
ln PTiz
N
Constant a
Full
Database
(< 0.0001)
(< 0.0001)
ln DEz
-0.0556**
-0.0813**
(0.04810)
(0.016)
lnSURF z
R²
Adjusted R²
Jarque-Bera Statistic
White's statistic
Durbin-Watson Statistic
dL of D-W
dU of D-W
0.012
0.009
0.018
0.016
136.375***
126.013***
(< 0.0001)
(< 0.0001)
0.6444
1.843
1.3111
1.888
1.83987
1.848875
1.83404
1.8437
R²
Adjusted R²
F-statistic
White's statistic
Durbin-Watson
dL of D-W
dU of D-W
445
1.273***
Database minus
the Paris ZE
415
1.591***
0.034
0.006
(0.328)
(0.888)
0.0136
0.0092
3.056
0.018
0.0137
3.872
(0.048)
(0.022)
138.764***
126.725***
(< 0.0001)
(< 0.0001)
3.207
1.8453
1.4893
1.8881
1.83535
1.85341
1.829195
1.84856
The figures in brackets are the critical probabilities for each statistic
*, **, *** indicate that the null hypothesis has been rejected at a significance level of, respectively, 10, 5 and 1%.
The first striking result is the weakness of the relationship between job density in the
employment area and the productivity at the labour cost in the case of warehousing activities
(see Tables 5 and 6). Nevertheless, this relationship is significantly negative. Thus, the
elasticity of the productivity at the labour cost and job density is 6.19% for the full database
and 5.56% for a given employment area surface (as the impact of the latter on productivity is
not significant). The model gains a little explanatory power when only the observations
outside Paris are tested. The elasticity of the productivity at the labour cost to job density thus
stands at 8.35% for the entire database and 8.13% for a given employment area surface. We
can therefore suggest that the productivity at the labour cost for single-establishment firms
falls slightly as job density rises. A doubling of job density leads to a reduction of
approximately 6 to 8% in the productivity at the labour cost depending on the sample and the
specification. Consequently, the location of warehousing firms in dense zones does not
improve their productivity. On the contrary, the results show that the intensity of economic
activities in the zone of location is significantly counter-productive. Strong labour demand in
an employment zone therefore reduces the performance of the warehousing firms located in it.
This is because the dynamic nature of local activities creates competition that increases
salaries. The impact of the cost of labour productivity is naturally negative. Consequently,
competition seems to have a greater effect than urbanisation economies because of a
congestion effect on the labour market.
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3.3.2 Testing the effects of localisation economies
The role of locational externalities depends on the hypothesis that firms are more productive
in zones where their industry is more highly concentrated. In this case it is not the density of
the local economy which is responsible for productivity gains, but more specifically that of
the economic sector in question. Initially, we shall examine localisation economies by
applying the same approach we used in order to investigate urbanisation economies, namely
exploring the link between the productivity at the labour cost and intrasectoral job density.
However, the variable which is the most commonly used to capture intrasectoral externalities
is the extent to which the employment area is specialised in the sector of activity in question,
which we can measure on the basis of the proportion of local economy that is in the sector in
question (Glaeser, et al., 1992).
 The role of intrasectoral job density
In the case of density, the models estimate the intrasectoral effect in the strict sense (firms
belonging to category 52.1 "Warehousing and storage") and in the broad sense (firms that
come under section H "Transport and warehousing"). Measurement of the effect of
localisation economies in the broad sense is based on the link between the job density for
sector H in the employment area and the productivity at the labour cost:
(3)
where
denotes the job density for sector H in employment area .
Likewise, measurement of the effect of localisation economies in the strict sense is based
on the link between the job density for category 52.1 in the employment area and the
productivity at the labour cost:
(4)
where
denotes the job density for category 52.1 in employment area .
Tables 7 and 8 summarise the results of the regressions. The correlation between the logs
of the job density for section H and the surface area of the employment areas is slightly higher
(- 0.25) in the case of the full database, and slightly lower for the database that excludes the
observations for the employment area of Paris (- 0.41) than it was for the results of the
previous analysis that related to urbanisation economies.
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Table 7.
Estimations of the effects of location
Dependent variable:
ln PTiz
N
Constant a
Full
Database
(< 0.0001)
(< 0.0001)
lnDEH z
-0.0629**
-0.081***
(0.0108)
(0.00361)
lnSURF z
R²
Adjusted R²
F-statistic
White's statistic
dL of D-W
dU of D-W
Table 8.
Estimations of the effects of location
Dependent variable:
ln PTiz
N
Constant a
Database minus
the Paris ZE
445
1.172***
415
1.388***
0.028
0.001
(0.427)
(0.971)
0.0194
0.015
4.374
0.0248
0.0201
5.236
(0.013)
(0.00568)
130.937***
121.248***
(< 0.0001)
(< 0.0001)
1.414
1.85175
2.44251
1.061
1.83535
1.85341
1.829195
1.84856
lnDEE z
lnSURF z
R²
Adjusted R²
F-statistic
White's statistic
Durbin-Watson
dL of D-W
dU of D-W
Full
Database
Database minus
the Paris ZE
445
4.498***
415
1.026***
(< 0.0001)
(0.00029)
-0.026
-0.050*
(0.2697)
(0.030)
0.022
0.014
(0.5789)
(0.720)
0.0047
0.0002
1.047
0.0158
0.0110
3.309
(0.352)
(0.0375)
134.865***
129.668***
(< 0.0001)
(< 0.0001)
4.634
1.7792
10.308
1.8502
1.83535
1.85341
1.829195
1.84856
*, **, *** indicate that the null hypothesis has been rejected at a significance level of, respectively, 10, 5 and 1%.
Once again, the treatments reveal a strikingly weak link between intrasectoral job density,
whether in the broad or strict sense, and the productivity at the labour cost for warehousing
activities (see Tables 7 and 8). The effect of job density in sector H on the productivity at the
labour cost is nevertheless very significantly negative. Thus, the elasticity of the productivity
at the labour cost to the job density for sector H stands at 6.29% for the full database and
8.1% when only observations from outside the employment area of Paris are tested. The effect
of job density in category 52.1 is however not significant in the case of the full database, and
only slightly significant for the database without the Paris employment area. Thus, while there
is no conclusive effect with regard to localisation economies for the sector in the strict sense,
the impact of co-location is significantly negative for localisation economies in the broad
sense. In addition to a congestion effect for jobs that exerts upward pressure on salaries, in
particular from the intrasectoral standpoint, there is also an effect due to the nature of the
activities. Sector H includes, amongst other types of firm, freight transport firms and
providers of services that are ancillary to transport, in other words firms that have taken on
logistics functions, so-called 3PL firms, which are both customers and competitors of the
warehousing firms. The latter are always “price-takers”, in particular because compared to
3PLs they can only offer a very small range of support services. Warehousing firms are
therefore subject to the market and its changing nature, which generates pressure on the prices
of their services. As in our case production is measured by turnover, it is negatively affected
by an intensification of competition.
 The role of job specialisation
The effect of localisation economies can also be tested by considering the link between job
specialisation in the employment area and the productivity at the labour cost:
(5)
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where
denotes the job specialisation for sector H in employment zone . We shall
not report the tests conducted on the effect of job specialisation for category 52.1
"Warehousing and storage” in employment zone as no conclusive result was obtained.
Table 9.
Estimations of the role of job specialisation for sector H in the location effects according to
specification (5)
Dependent variable:
lnPT iz
N
Constant a
lnSPECH z
R²
Adjusted R²
Full
Database
Database minus
the Paris ZE
445
1.278*
415
1.248***
(0.031)
(< 0.0001)
-0.1496**
-0.1475**
(0.021)
(0.02354)
0.012
0.0097
136.473***
0.0124
0.01
131.755***
(< 0.0001)
(< 0.0001)
1.2408
1.84816
1.2248
1.837
White's statistic
dL of D-W
1.83987
1,83404
dU of D-W
1,848875
1,8437
*, **, *** indicate that the null hypothesis has been rejected at a
significance level of, respectively, 10, 5 and 1%.
As previously, the link between the productivity at the labour cost and the employment
area’s relative specialisation in sector H jobs is low (see Table 9). The elasticity of the
productivity at the labour cost to job specialisation for sector H is nevertheless almost 15%,
confirming the significant existence of localisation diseconomies as described by Combes and
Lafourcade (2012) who mention that the geographical concentration of a sector of activity can
increase competition between firms in the sector. If such localisation diseconomies are strong
enough, they may outweigh localisation economies.
3.3.3 Testing the effects of agglomeration economies
The last model allows us to test the impacts of agglomeration effects:
(6)
The results for this specification (6) are summarised in table 10.
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Table 10.
Estimations of agglomeration effects according to specification (6)
Dependent variable:
lnPT iz
N
Constant a
Full
Database
lnDE z
lnSPECH z
lnSURF z
R²
Adjusted R²
F-statistic
White's statistic
Database minus
the Paris ZE
445
1.289***
415
1.523***
(< 0.0001)
(0.00014)
-0.049
-0.070*
(0.084)
(0.0405)
-0.125
-0.114
(0.057)
(0.0853)
0.028
0.005
(0.430)
(0.893)
0.0217
0.0151
3.267
0.0255
0.0184
3.585
(0.02124)
(0.01391)
130.924
121.242
(< 0.0001)
(< 0.0001)
4.2066
1.856
4.7683
1.854
dL of D-W
1.8308
1.8243
1.85795
1.8534
dU of D-W
*, **, *** indicate that the null hypothesis has been rejected at a
significance level of, respectively, 10, 5 and 1%
The results of these final treatments confirm the fragility of the tested model (see Table
10). They nevertheless suggest that, overall, agglomeration diseconomies exist, as a result of
location effects outweighing urbanisation effects. All things being equal, our results tend to
suggest that intrasectoral concentration in the broad sense increases competition, which in
turn increases labour costs and adversely affects the efficiency of warehousing activities. In
addition, as warehousing activities are in a situation of economic servitude and all the firms
provide much the same services, warehouse are in the position of a price-taker. Thus, intrasectoral concentration creates pressure on the price of their service. In other words, for this
sector, the effects of competition seem to outweigh the opportunities provided by proximity.
The small size of the sample, the fact that the findings are not statistically conclusive and
disagree with the empirical literature that analyses the totality of economic activities leads us
to examine the behaviour of residuals. In the case of all the models we tested, with the
exception of specification (4) for the full database, the Durbin-Watson test either leads one to
conclude that there is an overall absence of autocorrelation, or does not enable one to
conclude that no such autocorrelation exists. While the White test leads us never to reject the
hypothesis of homoscedasticity, the Jarque-Bera test raises an issue which is generally
significant with regard to the normality of residuals. All the results of our analysis need to be
qualified in view of the variable robustness of the estimations revealed by the analysis of
residuals.
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4
Conclusion
The originality of the research presented in this paper lies in the fact that it provides a
measure of the spatial dynamics of logistics activities, warehousing in particular. For the first
time, it provides the opportunity to test how agglomeration economies contribute to these
dynamics. The analysis, performed on data from different sources, confirms, in the case of
France, the process of geographical concentration highlighted in the literature. Moreover, the
concentration measurements show that warehousing activities are more concentrated than the
rest of the activities in the "Transport and storage" sector of the economy, and that this trend
towards concentration is a lasting one.
The New Economic Geography explains the advantages economic activities derive from
grouping together because of the presence of agglomeration economies due to the
combination of the urbanisation (or extrasectoral) economies that result from the
concentration of the economic fabric in the area, and localisation or specialization (or
intrasectoral) economies, related to the concentration of activities in the sector in question.
We have sought to test the hypothesis that the productivity of logistics warehousing firms is
positively correlated with both the total job density in the zone (urbanization economies) and
the level of specialization in the "Transport and storage" sector (localization economies).
Taken as a whole, the estimation results show that the chosen specifications explain very little
of the variance in the productivity of warehousing firms (adjusted R² values of between 0.015
and 0.020 - the work of Barbesol and Briant (2008) reports adjusted R² values ranging from
0.127 to 0.205). However, the elasticities between the productivity of warehousing firms in a
given area and its job density appear to be significantly negative. Thus, contrary to our
original hypothesis, the effect of urbanization economies on logistics warehousing operations
in France is very low, and to say the least, negative. This result contradicts the findings of
research on economic activities in general which has shown that, until now, a high local
density of economic activities increases the productivity of firms and workers. In the case of
warehousing activities in France, the results of our study suggest that, although the presence
of these activities is likely to increase the attractiveness of the area for all other activities, the
density of the economic fabric tends to increase pressure on the prices of warehousing
services - especially as these all very much resemble one another - and thus reinforce their
position of "servitude" in the supply chain. This testifies to the fact that firms of this type are
in the position of price-takers.
Furthermore, our results also show the absence of local externalities of the MAR type and,
conversely, the presence of localisation diseconomies for warehousing activities in France.
This finding is less in contradiction with other research on the sector. The warehousing sector,
which is characterised by the strong presence of low-skilled workers, is not affected by
knowledge externalities, for example. In addition, and less intuitively, the results suggest that
the proximity of complementary services, which could potentially foster inter-firm
collaboration and help the development of more complex, tailor-made, logistics services, does
not have a positive net impact. The results of this study also tend to cast doubt on the role of
logistics clusters on the performance of firms, in spite of their marked development in recent
years.
Therefore, the article leads to the conclusion that the concentration of logistics
warehousing operations probably tends to be more a source of agglomeration diseconomies,
both intersectoral (urbanisation diseconomies) and intrasectoral (localisation diseconomies).
Ultimately, geographical concentration does not appear to provide productivity gains for
warehousing companies. However, the above conclusions should be qualified. The research
we have described is open to both internal and external criticism. With regard to internal
criticism, the main issue is the small size of the sample. In addition, as the fundamental
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principle of our analysis was the location of the observed entities, observations on multiestablishment firms, which provide only general information, had to be removed. Although
this was necessary in order to ensure our analysis was sound, it reduces our ability to observe
the spatial dynamics of the major groups which operate in this area of activity. With regard to
the dependent variable, for reasons of data availability, it was only possible to consider the
productivity at the labour cost. The fact that total factor productivity was not analysed means
that, for example, we were unable to consider the role of property pressure that inhibits this
type of activity’s natural need for space. Finally, the proposed specifications are incomplete in
that they do not incorporate all the factors that could explain the presence of agglomeration
economies. Thus, the market potential9 is not taken into account while it should help to
address the effect of external markets (or market accessibility). The inclusion of this variable
could allow us to take account of the impact of the performance of transport infrastructure.
The external limitations of our work are due first to the fact that it only considered
warehousing that is conducted for a third party, and second to the fact that the analysis is
conducted on a sectoral basis rather than on the basis of supply chains. However, location in a
technology park (automotive, aerospace, etc.) can probably improve a warehousing firm’s
productivity.
There are also a number of possibilities for future research. We would like to confirm our
findings by referring to a consolidated database or by including observations that cover a
number of years for the "Warehousing and storage" activity category or by extending our
observations to cover the entire "Storage and transportation support" category? This would be
appropriate insofar as many warehousing services are now carried out by road transport
undertakings or providers of services that are ancillary to transport. Furthermore, if the
presence of agglomeration diseconomies is confirmed, we would like to better identify what
drives the spatial concentration of logistics activities. Indeed, how can we explain the spatial
concentration of warehousing activities when it reduces their productivity? The idea would be
to test the hypothesis that despite a net negative effect, the spatial concentration of
warehousing activities is strongly conditioned, as stated in the literature, by the configuration
of supply chains (Petiot and Masson 2011). Finally, we would like to estimate how the effect
of the market and accessibility impact the spatial concentration of logistics activities.
9
Calculated, for example, by summing all the activities on markets, discounted by the cost of transport to
access them.
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Appendixes
Appendix 1.
Economic features of the French administrative regions (INSEE, 2012)
Administrative region
Alsace
Aquitaine
Auvergne
Basse-Normandie
Bourgogne
Bretagne
Centre
Champagne-Ardenne
Corse
Franche-Comté
Haute-Normandie
Ile-de-France
Languedoc-Roussillon
Limousin
Lorraine
Midi-Pyrénées
Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Pays de la Loire
Picardie
Poitou-Charentes
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Rhône-Alpes
Urban units with more than 100,000 inhabitants (rank)
Strasbourg (13), Mulhouse (26)
Bordeaux (7), Bayonne (29), Pau (34)
Clermont-Ferrand (24)
Caen (35)
Dijon (28)
Rennes (20), Brest (33), Lorient (57)
Tours (18), Orléans (23)
Reims (31), Troyes (50)
Besançon (49), Montbéliart (59)
Rouen (12), Le Havre (27)
Paris (1)
Montpellier (15), Perpignan (36), Nimes (39)
Limoges (37)
Metz (21), Nancy (22), Thionville (51)
Toulouse (6)
Lille (4), Douai-Lens (10), Béthune (17), Valenciennes (19), Dunkerque (40), Maubeuge (58)
Nantes (8), Angers (30), Le Mans (32), Saint-Nazaire (47)
Amiens (43), Creil (56)
Poitiers (53), La Rochelle (55), Angoulème (60)
Marseille - Aix-en-Provence (3), Nice (5), Toulon (9), Avignon (14)
Lyon (2), Grenoble (11), Saint-Etienne (16), Chambéry (38), Annecy (46), Valence (54)
Metropolitan France
GDP
(million Euros)
53 632
90 796
33 756
36 370
42 731
83 407
67 122
37 113
8 173
28 593
49 815
612 323
63 944
17 307
56 346
79 855
103 226
101 229
45 681
45 016
142 358
196 995
1 995 786
GDP/inhab.
Rank
12
6
19
18
16
7
9
17
22
20
13
1
10
21
11
8
4
5
14
15
3
2
(Euros)
28 849
27 583
24 920
24 597
25 996
25 666
26 126
27 813
25 523
24 295
26 984
51 250
23 566
23 354
23 968
27 198
25 487
27 775
23 751
25 166
28 861
30 943
31 420
Rank
4
7
16
17
11
12
10
5
13
18
9
1
21
22
19
8
14
6
20
15
3
2
Sources: (INSEE, 2012)
Appendix 2. Concentration indices
There are several concentration indices, of varying degrees of effectiveness. We have selected
two based not only on their performance, but also on their compatibility with the data at our
disposal. These are the Herfindahl-Hirschman index and the Gini index.
 The Hirschman-Herfindahl index of absolute geographic concentration (Hk)
The Hirschman-Herfindahl index is the most straightforward to compute and corresponds to
the sum of squares of the sector's share in the area. Its value varies between 1/n, where n is the
number of zones, and 1. It takes on a value of 1 when all the establishments in the sector are
concentrated in a single zone and its minimum value when they are evenly distributed
between the zones.
 Gini index of relative geographical concentration (Gk)
Gini indices of geographical concentration are widely used in the empirical literature to
measure the inequality of the distribution of a variable (Koenig, 2005). In the case of our
study, for a given region or département, the Gini index of relative geographical concentration
is referred to as relative because it evaluates the extent to which jobs in logistics activities are
more geographically concentrated than economic activities in general.
If the two
distributions are very different, jobs in logistics activities are said geographically concentrated
(the value of the index is close to 1). The use of relative indices makes it possible to make a
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comparison between the importance of a sector in a zone and its importance in all the studied
zones.
Appendix 3. The index of specialization: Hoover’s index
Hoover’s index is the ratio between the proportion of jobs an activity accounts for in a region
and the proportion of jobs it accounts for in the country as a whole. It is expressed using the
same formula Isard used in 1960 to give what was termed the location quotient.
denotes the number of jobs in sector k in zone i and
stands for the number of
employees in zone i.
Denotes the number of jobs in all the zones and
expresses the total number of jobs in
the economy as a whole.
This indicator estimates whether a given category of activities is over-represented in a zone
(when its value is greater than 1) or when it is under-represented (when its value is less than
1) compared to all urban areas.
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