their closeness to urban regions and by the economic performance of the latter. By means of a cross-sectional analysis of …-based measures are used to approximate the extent to which urban and rural areas are integrated in relational terms. Results shows … benefit from the growth process taking place in urban and intermediate regions. After having controlled for these growth …

whether the degree and type of urban concentration affects this relationship. Both income inequality and urban concentration …The purpose of this paper is to understand how income inequality is associated with economic growth in OECD regions and … sensitive to the type of urban structure. Higher inequalities seem to be more detrimental for growth in large cities, while …

start with the relation between development and rural–urban migration. Moving beyond the coarse rural–urban distinction, we … attention to the right tail of the distribution, the urban sector. We analyze how the urban hierarchy has changed over time in …

Since 1980, US wage growth has been fastest in large cities. Empirically, we show that most of this urban-biased growth … prices alone can account for most of the urban-biased growth, since Business Services firms in big cities tend to be large …