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Regional inequality in India in the 1990s: A further look
Singh, Nirvikar; Kendall, Jake; Jain, R. K.; Chander, Jai - 2013
finds that there was conditional convergence for urban households, but not for rural households in that period. …
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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
divergence, but evidence for growth convergence in some cases, dependent on initial conditions. The district level results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369498
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Why was the participation of Indian states in the growth turnaround so patchy? Some evidence based on robustness analysis
Ghate, Chetan; Wright, Stephen - 2012
In Ghate & Wright Journal of Development Economics, vol. 99 (2012) pp 58-67, we noted that there was considerable variation in the extent to which different Indian states participated in the Great Indian Growth Turnaround. In this paper we investigate whether there was any systematic...
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Resisting Economic Integration when Industry Location is Uncertain
Gallo, Fredrik - 2006
This paper analyses the political determination of transportation costs in a new economic geography model. In a benchmark case with certainty about where agglomeration takes place, a majority of voters favour economic integration and the resulting equilibrium is an industrialised core and a...
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Spanish regional unemployment revisited: The role of capital accumulation
Bande, Roberto; Karannassou, Marika - 2010
richer interpretation of regional disparities, and (ii) can capture the unemployment effects of growing variables such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280786
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The NRU and the evolution of regional disparities in Spanish unemployment
Bande, Roberto; Karanassou, Marika - 2011
(NRU) hypothesis as an explanation of the evolution of regional disparities in the unemployment rate. We first present our … persistent disparities in the regional unemployment rates. Through standard kernel density tecnhiques, we demonstrate the … natural rates. Our findings confirm that the evolution of regional disparities cannot be attributed to disparities in the …
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Searching for the Parallel Growth of Cities
Chen, Zhihong; Fu, Shihe; Zhang, Dayong - 2013
Based on the parallel growth implications of the four urban growth theories (endogenous growth theory, random growth theory, hybrid growth theory, and locational fundamentals theory), this paper uses the Chinese city size data from 1984-2006 and time series econometric techniques to test for...
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Dams and Intergovernmental Transfer: Balancing Local Interests in China
Bao, Xiaojia
Large-scale dams are controversial public infrastructure projects due to the unevenly distributed benefits and losses to local regions. The central government can make redistributive fiscal transfers to attenuate the impacts and reduce the inequality among local governments, but whether...
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Job-hopping in Silicon Valley: some evidence concerning the micro-foundations of a high technology cluster
Fallick, Bruce; Fleischman, Charles A.; Rebitzer, James B. - 2005
Observers of Silicon Valley's computer cluster report that employees move rapidly between competing firms, but evidence supporting this claim is scarce. Job-hopping is important in computer clusters because it facilitates the reallocation of talent and resources toward firms with superior...
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Análisis espacial del sistema financiero en aglomerados urbanos: El caso de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Denes, Andrés; Repetto, Gastón - 2015
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