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Spatial evolution of economic activity in Russia: New economic geography perspective
Kolomak, Evgeniya - European Regional Science Association - 2014
We study the dynamics of inter-regional economic disparities for a number of development characteristics, test the hypothesis of the new economic geography and connect the results with the prediction of the bell curve describing spatial concentration over time. The results of our analysis...
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Creative Class vs. Individual Creativity ? A Multi-level Approach to the Geography of Creativity
Alfken, Christoph - European Regional Science Association - 2014
For more than ten years the topics creative class, creative industries and creative regions are on the agenda in economic geography literature. Contributions mainly focus on the distribution, mobility and economic impact of creative individuals or companies from a regional perspective. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075806
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MEGACITIES AND COUNTRIES: URBANIZATION AND REAL CONVERGENCE
Barreiro-Pereira, Fernando - European Regional Science Association - 2014
the largest cities are in the less developed countries, while the most powerful world cities are mainly located in the … world city. A condition to be a world city is the access to the economic power. A conventional city has a region behind, and … companies, and the strong development in multimodal transportation networks, cause a great growth in some places of the World …
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Knowledge-intensive employment growth in the Dutch Randstad and the German Rhine-Ruhr area: the impact of centrality and peripherality
Kronenberg, Kristin; Volgmann, Kati - European Regional Science Association - 2013
This paper investigates to what extent the different subsectors of the knowledge economy are subject to sector-specific spatial patterns of employment dynamics, and whether these patterns are conditional upon the general economic climate in a particular region. To this end, we analyze and...
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Sequential city growth in the US: Does age matter?
Sánchez-Vidal, María; González-Val, Rafael; … - European Regional Science Association - 2013
We provide empirical evidence of the dynamics of city size distribution for the whole of the twentieth century in U.S. cities and metropolitan areas. We focus our analysis on the new cities that were created during the period of analysis. The main contribution of this paper, therefore, is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011131987
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Municipal sizes and municipal restructuring in Japan
Nakagawa, Kuninori - European Regional Science Association - 2014
In this article, we quantitatively analyze changes in the size distribution of municipal jurisdictions in Japan by using their rank-size distribution to capture the change. In Japan, the central government sometimes enacts large-scale municipal mergers, aimed at the creating of municipalities of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075934
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Regional inequalities and regional policies in Colombia: the experience of the last two decades
Galvis, Luis; Meisel, Adolfo - European Regional Science Association - 2013
Colombia has one of the worst income distributions in the world. This finding is a matter of concern since abundant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740528
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Location choices of multinational companies in Ukraine
Zvirgzde, Daria; Schiller, Daniel; Diez, Javier Revilla - European Regional Science Association - 2013
There has been a wide acknowledgement of the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) for economic growth and development of states, regions and cities. Special attention has been paid to FDI flows to transition economies, which owe their economic and social transformation to a large extent to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740391
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THE EFFECT ON FIRMS? PRODUCTIVITY OF ACCESSIBILITY. THE SPANISH MANUFACTURING SECTOR
Martín-Barroso, David; Núñez, Juan A.; Velázquez, … - European Regional Science Association - 2013
This paper evaluates the impact of accessibility on the productivity of Spanish manufacturing firms. We suggest the use of accessibility indicators to workers and commodities, integrating transport, land use, and individual components in their measurement, and computing real distances or...
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Do public transport improvements increase employment and income in a city?
Bacares, Carlos Augusto Olarte - European Regional Science Association - 2013
Previous researches have proved the existence of a causal relationship between the concentration of jobs in a city and the income of inhabitants. Other researchers have studied the close and even nearly causal relationship between those variables and the degree of accessibility or of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132006