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Brown growth, green growth, and the efficiency of urbanization

Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - 2012

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of …'). If, however, production becomes cleaner over time ('green growth') the equilibrium urbanization path reaches the … efficient urbanization path after finite time without need of a coordinating mechanism. The results may be generalized to take …

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A Spatial Analysis of Inward FDI and Rural-Urban Wage Inequality : Evidence from China

Wang, Hao - 2020

When investigating the relationship between inward FDI and rural-urban inequality, previous studies overlook the inter-regional interactions. Building on the literature that highlights the significant role of rural-urban migration in inequality, this article investigates spatial spillover effect...

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The Urban-Rural Gap in Health Care Infrastructure - Does Government Ideology Matter?

Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

Spatial inequalities in publicly provided goods such as health care facilities have substantial socio-economic effects. Little is known, however, as to why publicly provided goods diverge among urban and rural regions. We exploit narrow parliamentary majorities in German states between 1950 and...

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The impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions: evidence from developing countries

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries, taking into account the … different for upper, middle, and low- income countries, urbanization, demonstrate a very different impact on emissions for low …

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Growth, foreign direct investment and urban concentrations: unbundling spatial lags

Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2008

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear …

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Urban squatting with rent-seeking organizers

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2012

This paper extends a new line of research on urban squatting that focuses on the role of the squatter organizer. The model replaces the benevolent organizer from previous studies with a collection of competing, rent-seeking squatter organizers, a structure that may offer a realistic picture of...

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Rush Hours and Urbanization

Seidel, Tobias - 2019

We use a spatial general equilibrium model with potential commuting of workers between their place of work and their place of residence to analyze the effects of rush hours on the spatial allocation of employment and population, average labor productivity and the housing market. Abolishing...

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Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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What do we know about the relationship between regionalized aspects of the unemployment insurance system and internal migration in Canada?

Day, Kathleen M.; Winer, Stanley L. - 2011

The purpose of this paper is to critically review the past four decades of empirical research on the relationship between internal migration and regional variation in the generosity of Canada's unemployment insurance system. It has long been argued that because the Canadian insurance system is...

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Migration between Platforms

Biglaiser, Gary - 2020

We study incumbency advantage in markets with positive consumption externalities. Users of an incumbent platform receive stochastic opportunities to migrate to an entrant. They can accept a migration opportunity or wait for a future opportunity. In some circumstances, users have incentives to...

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