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Regional income disparities have increased in many European countries recently, even as national and supra … as migration are at the core of differential regional growth. In this framework, we assess the effectiveness of …
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employment. In this context, the promotion of a concept called regional innovation system has recently become important in the EU … for guaranteeing long-term regional economic growth. This paper attempts to explain the determinants of the varying … degrees of innovation promotion by the EU from one region to another. Since regional-policy strategies should have been …
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national regional policy funds. The benchmark for the co-funding is that the EU bears 50% of total costs associated with … regional projects eligible for EU support. In some regions, however, the EU contribution has reached 85% of total costs. This … study examines how such additionality degrees are determined. Our findings indicate that the regional variation of …
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In this paper we show that the double Pareto lognormal (DPLN) parameterization provides an excellent fit to the overall US city size distribution, regardless of whether “cities” are administratively defined Census places or economically defined area clusters. We then consider an economic...
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China’s Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing these restrictions for China’s internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters...
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The literature on China indicates that the concentration of economic activities in China is less than in other industrialized countries. Institutional limits are largely held responsible for this finding (e.g. the Hukou system); firms and workers are not able to take full advantage of the...
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We describe a model that integrates a multi-regional input-output model of the U.S. (50 states and the District of …
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We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are “too small” to follow Zipf’s law.
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period, we find that the degree and nature of regional urbanization and specialization are important drivers of the …
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Provided there are positive external benefits attached to the historic character of buildings, owners of properties in designated conservation areas benefit from a reduction in uncertainty regarding the future of their area. At the same time, the restrictions put in place to ensure the...
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