We investigate whether plants inside and outside geographic clusters differ in their resilience to adverse economic shocks. To this end, we develop a bottom-up procedure to delimit clusters using Canadian geocoded plant-level data. Focussing on the textile and clothing industries and exploiting the dramatic changes faced by that sector between 2001 and 2013, we find no evidence that plants in clusters are more resilient than plants outside clusters: they are neither less likely to die nor more likely to adapt by switching their main line of business. However, conditional on switching, plants in urbanized clusters are more likely to transition to services.

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集群有弹性吗？来自加拿大纺织业的证据

我们调查地理集群内外的植物对不利经济冲击的适应能力是否不同。为此，我们开发了一个自下而上的程序来使用加拿大地理编码的植物级数据来划分集群。关注纺织和服装行业并利用该行业在 2001 年至 2013 年期间面临的巨大变化，我们发现没有证据表明集群中的植物比集群外的植物更具弹性：它们既不太可能死亡，也不太可能适应转换他们的主要业务。然而，在转换的条件下，城市化集群中的工厂更有可能过渡到服务业。