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Regional inequality in India in the 1990s: A further look
Singh, Nirvikar; Kendall, Jake; Jain, R. K.; Chander, Jai - 2013
This paper examines changes in regional inequality in India in the 1990s, using data for 59 of India's 78 agro-climatic regions from the National Sample Survey. It extends the work of Singh et al. (2003) in two ways. First, it allows for differences in baseline growth performance across...
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Regional inequality in India in the 1990s: A district-level view
Singh, Nirvikar; Kendall, Jake; Jain, R. K.; Chander, Jai - 2013
This paper examines changes in regional inequality in India in the 1990s, using data for 210 of India's districts, spread across nine states. It provides a finer-grained quantitative analysis of growth patterns than has hitherto been attempted for India. The methodology is that of cross-section...
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Macroeconomic implications of agglomeration
Davis, Morris A.; Fisher, Jonas D. M.; Whited, Toni M. - 2010
agglomeration on per capita consumption growth. Agglomeration affects growth through the density of economic activity: higher … effect of agglomeration on local wages. The impact of agglomeration on the level of wages is estimated to be 2 percent …. Combined with their model and observed increases in land prices, this estimate implies that agglomeration raises per capita …
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Increasing Returns, Input-Output Linkages, and Technological Leapfrogging
Gallo, Fredrik - 2006
increasing in the benefits of agglomeration. Greater incompatibility between technologies also increases the risk of rejecting …
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Cournot Competition, Market Size Effects and Agglomeration
Gallo, Fredrik - 2005
different regions. Lowering the trade costs beyond a critical level triggers an agglomeration of industry in the larger region …. This process of agglomeration is gradual in nature and trade costs have to be successively lowered for a full …-scale agglomeration to take place. …
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Isolation and development
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded; Ozak, Omer - 2009
This paper exploits cross-country variation in the degree of geographical isolation, prior to the advent of sea-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe. The empirical investigation establishes that prehistoric...
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Heterogeneous convergence
Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel - 2013
We use U.S. county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity. E.g., the California estimate is 19.9 percent and the New York estimate is 3.3 percent. Convergence rates are essentially uncorrelated with income levels.
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Federal, state, and local governments: Evaluating their separate roles in US growth
Higgins, Matthew J.; Young, Andrew T.; Levy, Daniel - 2008
We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...
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Is there an income convergence across provinces of Turkey?
Öz, Sumru - 2017
In this paper, whether there is a convergence of per capita incomes across Turkish provinces during 2004-2014 period is examined following the availability of per capita incomes of Turkish provinces for this period as of December 2016. Considering that firms and households of different regions...
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Inter-state dynamics of invention activities, 1930 - 2000
Co, Catherine Y.; Landon-Lane, John S.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2005
We study the dynamics of the cross-section distribution of patents per capita for the 48 continental U.S. states from 1930 to 2000 using a discrete-state Markov chain. We test for and find evidence in favor of the (knowledge) convergence hypothesis as we find that the distribution of patents is...
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