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Reimagining India's urban future: A framework for securing high-growth, low-carbon, climate-resilient urban development in India
Tewar, Meenu; Aziz, Zeba; Cook, Mitchell; Goldar, Amrita; … - 2015
India is at the cusp of a major urban transition. In less than twenty years, India's urban population is expected to …'s GDP, and this number is expected to rise to 75% by 2031. With 70% of all new jobs expected to come from urban areas …, accommodating a growing urban workforce will require large investments in new urban spaces. How prepared is India to deal with this …
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Local Economies and General Elections
Elinder, Mikael - 2006
This paper estimates voters' response to municipality and regional level unemployment and economic growth, in Swedish general elections from 1985 to 2002, using data on 284 municipalities and 9 regions. An increase in regional growth or a reduction in regional unemployment by one percentage...
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On the origin of the German East-West population gap
Eder, Christoph; Halla, Martin - 2018
The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We use newly collected regional data and the combination of a regression discontinuity design in space with a difference-in-differences...
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Regional location of business sector research and development
Eliasson, Kent; Hansson, Pär; Lindvert, Markus - 2024
In the paper, we break down business sector R&D at an appropriate regional level (functional analysis regions, FA-regions) in Sweden. We describe the variation and development at the regional level. In an econometric analysis, we examine what affects the location and size of enterprise groups'...
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Commuting in Europe: An Inter-regional Analysis on its Determinants and Spatial Effects
Castelli, Chiara; Parenti, Angela - 2020
Commuting shapes countless everyday-lives around the world, with dynamics varying from city to regional and cross regional level. Taking as reference the free-movement EU-28 area (plus Switzerland and Norway), the analysis considers a total sample of 195 NUTS2 regions over the decade 2007-2017...
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High-growth firms in Georgia
Choi, Taelim; Robertson, John C.; Rupasingha, Anil - 2013
This paper reports the results of a study of the characteristics and direct employment impact of high-growth firms operating in Georgia. The longitudinal data used in this study are from the National Establishment Time-Series (NETS) database. Using a standard definition of high employment growth...
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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 …
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International Import Competition and the Decision to Migrate: Evidence from Mexico
Majlesi, Kaveh; Narciso, Gaia - 2015
We analyze the effects of the increase in China's import competition on Mexican domestic and international migration. We exploit the variation in exposure to competition from China, following its accession to the WTO in 2001, across Mexican municipalities and estimate the effect of international...
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Rural Nonfarm Employment andIncomes in the Himalayas
Micevska, Maja; Rahut, Dil Bahadur - 2008
Nonfarm activities generate on average about 60 percent of rural households' incomes in the Himalayas. This paper analyzes the determinants of participation in nonfarm activities and of nonfarm incomes across rural households. A unique data set collected in the Himalayan region of India allows...
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School density and inequality in student achievement
De la Roca, Jorge; Thiemann, Petra - 2024
city-size gradient in test score inequality. Assortativeness is strongest in the high-income neighborhoods of large cities. …
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