S<sc>chaffar</sc> A. and D<sc>imou</sc> M. Rank-size city dynamics in China and India, 1981--2004, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. By using empirical evidence based on data from India and China between 1981 and 2004, this paper studies the dynamic patterns of urban hierarchies within the two most populated countries in the...

The aim of this article is to analyze the patterns of the Chinese urban growth from 1984 to 2004, a period of important economic, social and institutional changes within this country. This article follows a two-sequenced methodological path. First, it applies Ioannides et Overman's seminal work...

An important literature has developed on the economic growth of small insular economies. In France, this literature mainly concerns its overseas? departments and territories in order to determine their long-term competitiveness and growth mechanisms. This paper aims to propose a critical...

This paper uses empirical evidence from the Balkan peninsula during the 1981—2001 period, in order to study the dynamic patterns of a conflict-affected city-size distribution. By examining the time variations of the Pareto exponent on the one hand and by exploring cities’ relative...

The aim of this paper is to study the relation between economic development and urban hierarchies?<np pagenum="302"/> evolutions in the Mediterranean from 1960 to 2000. The paper clearly demonstrates that the countries with a higher income per capita (France, Spain, Italy) have a less hierarchical city-size...

The aim of this paper is to study the impact of local amenities on urban wages in Greece. It breaks through the previous recent dichotomous approaches on urban wage premium, according to which, salary differentials are due either to productivity effects or to the heterogeneity of the labor...