This article analyze the relation between urban structure and labor markets, with the purpose of valuing to what extent the monocentric model fits with the recent development of Madrid metropolitan area. Starting with the analysis of the territorial localization of companies and households...

This paper focuses on estimating interregional human capital migration flows in Spain, based on the assumption of key hypothesis on data and temporal characteristics of educated population migration flows. The results point to the increasing intensity of medium and high educated gross migration...

This contribution presents the revision of the maps of Marshallian industrial districts and manufacturing local production systems of large firms in Spain, following the new ISTAT 2006 methodology. The article presents the methodology for the identification of local labour markets, industrial...

La interacción social y económica entre pequeñas unidades espaciales es un fenómeno que indudablemente cobra mayor persistencia a través del tiempo. Esto implica que los mercados laborales se expanden a través del espacio principalmente por la continua reducción de los costos de...

The concept of «agglomeration economies» explains the existence of advantages derived from the concentration of population and activity. However, it does not explain the existence of spatially dynamic external economies. Network economies generated in networks of cities correspond to this last...

This paper presents a model which explains per capita regional product as a function of spatial and non spatial variables. Spatial variables may act within and beyond its territory and are related to spatial phenomena such as spatial external economies or expenditure urban multipliers. The model...

This study revisits the utility of gravity models in the analysis of the principal determinants of exports. Traditional cross-sectional models are improved by considering the effect of omitted variables and/or the dynamic of trade flows through the use of spatial econometric techniques and panel...

The classical approach to estimate spatial models lays on the choiceof a spatial weights matrix that reflects the interactions among locations. The ruleused to define this matrix is supposed to be the most similar to the «true» spatialrelationships, but for the researcher is difficult to...

This introduction summarizes the main contributions of the papers selected to be published in this special issue. These papers were presented (among others) in the Fourth Seminar Jean Paelinck hold in Oviedo (Spain) in 2010 and their quality justified the edition of this Special Issue. As...

In this paper, we test the hypothesis of a wage curve against a Phillips curve for Spain, within a dynamic framework that allows for both of these, and for more general alternatives. To this end, we use data from the European Community Household Panel, providing micro-information for the period...