Search Results - subject:"Urban Hierarchy"

US city size distribution: Robustly Pareto, but only in the tail

Ioannides, Yannis; Skouras, Spyros - In: Journal of Urban Economics 73 (2013) 1, pp. 18-29

We establish empirically using three different definitions of US cities that the upper tail obeys a Pareto law and not a lognormal distribution. We emphasize estimation of a switching point between the body of the city size distribution (which includes most cities) and its upper tail (which...

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Long term evolution of the size distribution of Portuguese cities

Delgado, Ana Paula; Godinho, Isabel Maria - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2006

existence of spatial correlation in the process of urban hierarchy restructuring. …

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Les migrations étudiantes dans le système universitaire français au début des années 90

Baron, Myriam - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine avril (2005) 2, pp. 281-300

French University System has changed a lot during the past decade. On one hand, numerous studies are made at different scales to understand how it is spread in French urban system. On the other hand, fewer are research works about how students migrate from one University City to an other. This...

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The evolution of city size distribution in Portugal: 1864-2001

Delgado, Ana Paula; Godinho, Isabel Maria - 2004

growth rates and city size. Keywords: city size distribution, Zipf’s law, rank-size, urban hierarchy, urban primacy …

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Market size and urban hierarchy

BEHRENS, Kristian - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2004

point to the existence of some market size dependent "industrial urban" hierarchy: highly differentiated non-traded services …

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The evolution of city size distribution in Portugal: 1864-2001

Delgado, Ana Paula; Godinho, Isabel Maria - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2004

The rank-size model - which states that the size distribution of cities in a country follows a Pareto distribution - has been recognized as one of those stylized facts or amazing empirical regularities, in spatial economics. A common problem in city size distribution studies concerns the...

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Human Capital Assets and Structures of Work in the US Metropolitan Hierarchy (An Analysis Based on the O*NET Information System)

Scott, Allen J.; Mantegna, Agostino - In: International Regional Science Review 32 (2009) 2, pp. 173-194

in the urban hierarchy of the United States. The study proceeds, first, by means of factor analysis of the original O … activities in US metropolitan areas vary systematically across the urban hierarchy, as revealed by the relative concentration of …

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The Urban Hierarchy and Domestic Migration. The Interaction of Internal Migration, Disposable Income and the Cost of Living, Sweden 1993-2002

Korpi, Martin; Clark, William A.V.; Malmberg, Bo - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2008

This paper examines the variation in gains and losses from migration within the Swedish urban hierarchy. The central … movements up the urban hierarchy to larger and more expensive locations. The paper extends the literature which considers cost …, 1993-2002. The results consistently show relatively higher increases in disposable income moving up the urban hierarchy …

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Exodus from the California Core: Using Demographic Effectiveness and Migration Impact Measures to Examine Population Redistribution Within the Western United States

Henrie, Christopher; Plane, David - In: Population Research and Policy Review 27 (2008) 1, pp. 43-64

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Employment Growth in the American Urban Hierarchy: Long Live Distance

Partridge, Mark; Rickman, Dan; Ali, Kamar; Olfert, M. - In: Contributions to Macroeconomics 8 (2008) 1, pp. 1627-1627

by their position within six tiers (rural plus 5 urban) of the American urban hierarchy. Net agglomeration economies can …

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