The transformation of European demographics is the result of two main processes: on the one hand, the "extension" of inhabited spaces (without exaggerating, the entire Europe can now be represented as a single, immense urban entity); on the other hand, an apparently contradictory process, namely...

This paper examines whether population shrinkage leads to changes in urban hierarchy in terms of their relative size and function from the standpoint of the new economic geography. We find some salient patterns in which small cities in the agglomeration shadow become relatively bigger as medium...

This paper examines the degree to which supply and demand shift across skill groups contributed to the earnings inequality increase in urban China from 1988 to 2002. Product demand shift contributed to an equalizing of earnings distribution in urban China from 1988 to 1995 by increasing the...