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The Global Digital Divides : Explaining Change
Pick, James B. - 2015
examines digital differences in the major world nations of China, India, the United States and Japan at the state and … determinants, such as social capital in the United States and India, exports in China, and working age population and patents in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012402093
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Openness, Economic Growth and Regional Disparities : The Case of China
Jiang, Yanqing - 2014
Preface -- Introduction -- Output Growth and Productivity Growth in China -- Growth and Convergence across the Chinese … Regions -- Openness and Regional Growth in China -- Openness, Human Capital, and Productivity Growth in the Chinese Regions … -- Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Productivity Growth in China -- Endogenous Saving, Interregional Capital Mobility, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014017198
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Economic Growth and Inequality : Empirical Analysis for the Russian Regions
Kufenko, Vadim - 2015
Vadim Kufenko provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of various aspects of economic growth and income inequality in the Russian regions using different estimation techniques from the cross-section OLS and logistic models to dynamic panel data system GMM. The general period for the data is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012819092
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Evolving Diversity and Interdependence of Capitalisms : Transformations of Regional Integration in EU and Asia
Boyer, Robert (ed.); Uemura, Hiroyasu (ed.);  … - 2018
China, Japan, Korea, and ASEAN. It is shown how the enlargement of the European Union and the Euro triggered the diverging … Japanese capitalism -- 6 Growing China as a great economic power -- 7 International production linkages and global value chains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396930
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Household Behaviour, Prices, and Welfare : A Collection of Essays Including Selected Empirical Studies
Ray, Ranjan - 2018
This collection of essays covers a diverse set of topics related to household behavior and welfare. Prices play a key role in several of the essays, particularly the distributional implications of price movements, and the effects of changes in relative prices on inequality and poverty. This book...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396947
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Regional Inequality in Spain : 1860-2015
Diez-Minguela, Alfonso; Martinez-Galarraga, Julio; … - 2018
This book traces regional income inequality in Spain during the transition from a pre-industrial society to a modern economy, using the Spanish case to shed further light on the challenges that emerging economies are facing today. Regional inequality is currently one of the most pressing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396999
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The Segmentation of Europe : Convergence or Divergence between Core and Periphery?
Baimbridge, Mark; Jackson, Karen; Lee, Uih Ran - 2017
This book explores economic developments across Europe in relation to its apparent segmentation, as disparities widen between core and periphery countries. In contrast to previous literature, the scope of analysis is extended to Europe as a continent rather than confining it solely to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397768
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Regional Upgrading in Southern Europe : Spatial Disparities and Human Capital
Fratesi, Ugo (ed.); Fonseca, Madalena (ed.) - 2017
The book is aimed at a wide audience, including academics, economic geography, spatial planning and regional policy researchers, institutional leaders and managers, national and institutional policy makers, practitioners, administrators, master's and senior bachelor's students on related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398235
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An Introduction to Place-Based Development Economics and Policy
Seravalli, Gilberto - 2015
This book introduces the reader to local development economics and policy, with a special focus on the place-based paradigm that covers its justification, its difficulties and the types of public intervention that it suggests. The starting point for the analysis is that economic development in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012402028
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Geographical Labor Market Imbalances : Recent Explanations and Cures
Mussida, Chiara - 2015
This book focuses on the questions of how territorial differences in productivity levels and unemployment rates arise in the first place and why territorial differences in labor market performance persist over time. Unemployment divergence and unemployment club convergence have been touched on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012402106