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Migration and urbanisation in post-apartheid South Africa
Bakker, Jan David; Parsons, Christopher A.; Rauch, Ferdinand - 2016
population. In particular, we test if migration inflows led to displacement, path dependence, or agglomeration in destination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518151
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Labor demand shocks and housing prices across the US : does one size fit all?
Osei, Michael J.; Winters, John V. - 2018
This paper examines whether effects of labor demand shocks on housing prices vary across time and space. Using data on 321 US metropolitan statistical areas, we estimate the medium- and long-run effects of increases in metropolitan statistical area-level employment and total labor income on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880374
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Secondary towns and poverty reduction : refocusing the urbanization agenda
Christiaensen, Luc J.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2017
This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment towards secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance. Of course the hypothesis raises many questions. What exactly is the dichotomy of secondary towns versus big...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631514
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Geographic inequalities in accessibility of essential services
Almeida, Vanda; Hoffmann, Claire; Königs, Sebastian; … - 2024
People's ability to access essential services is key to their labour market and social inclusion. An important dimension of accessibility is physical accessibility, but little cross-country evidence exists on how close people live to the services facilities they need. This paper helps to address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014525277
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Comparative advantage and agglomeration of economic activity
Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016
key insight that emerges is that the interaction between agglomeration economies and comparative advantage involves a … comparative advantage in sectors governed by this force whilst the impact of agglomeration economies is enhanced by trade cost … small economies is not only shaped by the primitives that determine agglomeration economies and comparative advantage but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543995
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Endogenous local labour markets, regional aggregation and agglomeration economies
Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J. - 2019
This paper examines the role of regional aggregation in measuring agglomeration externalities. Using Dutch … agglomeration externalities at a higher spatial scale. We quantify subgroup differentials and find that high-educated workers have … agglomeration externalities twice as high as low-educated workers. We show that workers who lose their job in denser LLMs experience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012136998
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Inequality, reordering and divergent growth : processes of neighbourhood change in dutch cities
Modai-Snir, Tal; Ham, Maarten van - 2018
The socio-economic mosaic of urban neighbourhoods changes under the influence of three distinctive distributional processes: reordering of the socio-economic position of urban neighbourhoods; changing levels of inequality between neighbourhoods; and an overall growth or decline in income levels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925323
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The pan-European population distribution across consistently defined functional urban areas
Schmidheiny, Kurt; Südekum, Jens - 2015
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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515821
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A simple, analytically solvable Chamberlinian agglomeration model
Pflüger, Michael - 2001
This paper presents a simple, analytically solvable Chamberlinian agglomeration model. As in the canonical core …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403753
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Labor market pooling, outsourcing and labor contracts
Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2009
Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003884090