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This paper examines whether population shrinkage leads to changes in the urban hierarchy in terms of relative sizes of cities and their functions onomic geography. We work backwards in a racetrack economy with eight cities in a long-run equilibrium. Initial distribution of population is chosen...
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In depopulating cities, vacant houses and lots are common throughout the urban area, creating low-density urban areas that can lead to inefficiencies in public services and financial deterioration for municipalities. However, despite some studies demonstrating the relationship between population...
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's population is likely to level off from the middle of the 21st century, probably ending up around 10 billion, further urbanization …
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Demographic change is a complex phenomenon, but it has generally been accepted that having better employment opportunities and quality of jobs are among important factors that determine people's mobility. The purpose of this paper is to test the relationship between the increase in the number of...
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Cities experience significant, near random walk productivity shocks, yet population is slow to adjust. In practice, local population changes are dominated by variation in net migration, and we argue that understanding gross migration is essential to quantify how net migration may slow population...
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urbanization processes (the Americas, and African and Asian countries). The predominance of quadratic relationships characterized … regions with long-established urbanization processes, such as Europe, Russia, and, partly, China and the Middle East. The … relevance of the TL for a refined understanding of urbanization mechanisms worldwide, and the importance of a quadratic term for …
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Despite the overwhelming research and useful outcomes on the relationship between hydropower consumption, urban population growth, and environmental quality, the empirical studies have mostly relied on partial indicators of environmental quality and employed conventional econometric models in...
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