Chapter 1: A.A. Batabyal (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA), Y. Higano (University of Tsukuba, Japan), and P. Nijkamp (JADS, The Netherlands) Introduction to “Rural-urban dichotomies and spatial development in Asia.” -- Chapter 2: Yana Rodgers, (Rutgers University, USA) Domestic...

Part I: Conceptual and Historical Contributions -- Part II: International Migration -- Part III: Migration Effects on Destination Areas -- Part IV: Migration Effects on Sending Areas -- Part V: Migration and Policy.

The geographical distribution and persistence of regional/local unemployment rates in heterogeneous economies (such as Germany) have been, in recent years, the subject of various theoretical and empirical studies. Several researchers have shown an interest in analysing the dynamic adjustment...

An avalanche of empirical studies has addressed the validity of the rank-size rule (or Zipf's law) in a multi-city context in many countries. City size in most countries seems to obey Zipf's law, but the question under which conditions (e.g. sample size, spatial scale) this 'law' holds remained...

The regional economics and geography literature on urban population size has in recent years shown interesting conceptual and methodological contributions on the validity of Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law. Despite distinct modeling features, they express similar fundamental characteristics in an...