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including urban costs, it is shown that also increasing costs of freight transportation may give incentives to migration of … skilled workers from remote, small urban units to central, large cities. Therefore, concentration of urban population should …. Research questions are: What were the relations between urban growth and urban size in Russia during the transformation period …
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Urban revitalization programs are widespread used but empirically understudied place-based policy instruments which … which led to the designation of a set of five urban revitalization areas in Berlin, Germany in the beginning of 2010 …. Moreover, the study addresses the question whether the choice of the location of potential urban revitalization areas is …
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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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Development gaps are a common feature throughout the regions of the European Union, and Romania is no exception. Despite all the political and financial efforts, the convergence process is lengthy and complex, and the gaps with the deepest economic and social roots are the most difficult to be...
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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...
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The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) project is an integral part of a certain generation of planned and currently constructed research facilities that are held together by the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). The ELI is the world's first establishment that will...
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New firm formation is often highly prioritized by local governments, particularly for regions that are declining. Entrepreneurship can play an important role in keeping declining regions vital through job creation. Yet, the way in which new firm formation exerts its influence on employment...
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There is a broad consensus in the literature in that R&D is a precondition for innovation and in turn, for economic growth. On the regional level, this implies that regions with a high stock of R&D should reveal better results when it comes to economic performance. This presumption has lead...
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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...
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-up behaviour. In the Netherlands, all rural regions are relatively close to an urban centre in geographical terms and peripheral … regions are well connected through infrastructure, providing them a fairly easy link to the urban centres. In England, we find … are quite similar on paper but very different on the urban ? rural relation, we assess to what extent the type of rurality …
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