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RELAÇÕES INTERSETORIAIS E INTER-REGIONAIS NAS REGIÕES-PÓLO PARANAENSE EM 1995
MORETTO, A. C.; GUILHOTO, J. J. M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The aim of this article is to analyse the intersectoral and interregional relations and to compare the produtive structure of the principal pole-regions in the economy of Parana, Brazil. To reach this it was used an interregional input-output table for the year of 1995 in which the state of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259515
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Regional specialization: a measure method and the trends in China
Lu, Zheng; Flegg, A. Tony; Deng, Xiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper elaborates on a method of measuring regional specialization and examines the trend of regional specialization in China, 1987 - 2007. It constructs a simple coefficient incorporating the effect of regional industrial scale, based on location quotients, and then measures the regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360267
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Gulag, WWII and the Long-run Patterns of Soviet City Growth
Mikhailova, Tatiana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper analyzes the geographical patterns of city growth in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation in relation to the Stalinist policies of the 1930s to 1950s, and WWII. Using a unique data set on the locations of Gulag camps, and on the evacuation of industrial enterprises during WWII,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107447
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How cities develop: Affinity Factor Model for forecasting city development and dispersion
Deodhar, Rahul Prakash - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper discusses the principles that determine firstly how cities evolve over seven phases in what I call the Affinity Factor model. Secondly, we see how Affinity Factor model may help understand how development spreads or distributes within the city. We observe how these principles impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107874
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Urbanisation and Migration: An Analysis of Trends, Patterns and Policies in Asia
Kundu, Amitabh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The present paper overviews urbanisation and migration process in Asian countries at macro level since 1950s, including … in Asia. Increased unaffordability of urban space and basic amenities, negative policy perspective towards migration and … various rural development pogrammes designed to discourage migration are responsible for this exclusionary urban growth and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559068
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From Periphery to Core: Economic Adjustments to High Speed Rail
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Feddersen, Arne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper presents evidence that high speed rail systems, by bringing economic agents closer together, sustainably promote economic activity within regions that enjoy an increase in accessibility. Our results on the one hand confirm expectations that have led to huge public investments into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008645098
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Regional dimensions of economic development in Iran: A new economic geography approach
Farmanesh, Amir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper presents a spatial analysis on regional dimensions of poverty and economic development across provinces of Iran. It offers the first ever estimation made in developing countries using this strand of "New Economic Geography" (NEG) models and provides a comparison of the results between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005108457
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Spatial Allocation of Economy as a Fiber Bundle
Van-Ilya, Andrei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper considers the approach to specification and modeling of transport influence on spatial allocation of economy, which is essentially new for economics. By applying the concept of fiber bundle, a general model of spatial allocation of market with regard to transport costs is developed....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112744
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Agglomeration and Co-Agglomeration of Services Industries
Kolko, Jed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Economic research on industry location and agglomeration has focused nearly exclusively on manufacturing. This paper shows that services are prominent among the most agglomerated industries, especially at the county level. Because traditional measures of knowledge spillovers, natural resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790058
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A selection analysis on education returns in China
Kang, Lili; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper estimates the economic returns to education in China from 1989 to 2009, using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) dataset. We find that education returns for one additional year generally increase from 2.6% in 1989 to 7.9% in 2009. Education returns, however, may reflect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258797