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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014
This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … the informal sector is moving from rural to urban locations. While the secular trend for India's manufacturing … urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure have not. Our results suggest that districts …
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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States
Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016
Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare … American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998418
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Growth, Urbanization and Poverty Reduction in India
Datt, Gaurav - 2016
India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …
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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation : Evidence from Italian and German Provinces
Boeri, Tito - 2019
Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity – North more productive than South in Italy; West more productive than East in Germany – but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on nationwide contracts that allow for limited local...
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Pollution and Mortality in the 19th Century
Hanlon, William Walker - 2015
Mortality was extremely high in the industrial cities of the 19th century, but little is known about the role played by pollution in generating this pattern, due largely to a lack of direct pollution measures. I overcome this problem by combining data on the local composition of industries in...
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Changing Economic Geography and Vertical Linkages in Japan
Tomiura, Eiichi - 2021
In Japan, the manufacturing has become geographically dispersed in the 1990s, when the import share has risen after the historic exchange rate appreciation. As is consistent with the interpretation that import penetration undermines regional input-output linkages, our regressions detect the...
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Regions, Resources, and Economic Geography : Sources of U.S. Regional Comparative Advantage, 1880-1987
Kim, Sukkoo - 2022
This paper estimates the Rybczynski equation matrix for the twenty two-digit U.S." manufacturing industries for various years between 1880 and 1987. As predicted by the standard" general equilibrium theory of interregional trade, the regression estimates show that a consistent" set of factor...
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Environmental Policy When Market Structure and Plant Locations are Endo-Genous
Markusen, James R. - 2010
A two-region, two-firm model is developed in which firms choose the number and the regional locations of their plants. Both firms pollute and, in this context, market structure is endogenous to environmental policy. There are increasing returns at the plant level, imperfect competition between...
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Regional Adjustment to Trade Liberalization
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2011
In this paper, I study the effect of economic integration with the United States on state-industry employment growth in Mexico. I disentangle the effects of two opposing forces on regional labor demand: transport-cost considerations, which, all else equal, encourage firms to relocate their...
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Internal Geography, International Trade, and Regional Specialization
Cosar, Kerem - 2013
We introduce an internal geography to the canonical model of international trade driven by comparative advantages to study the regional effects of external economic integration. The model features a dual-economy structure, in which locations near international gates specialize in export-oriented...
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