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Local Economies and General Elections
Elinder, Mikael - 2006
general elections from 1985 to 2002, using data on 284 municipalities and 9 regions. An increase in regional growth or a …
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Amazon green recovery and labor market in Brazil: Can green spending reduce gender and race inequalities?
Marques, Pedro Romero; Pires, Luiza Nassif; Taioka, Tainari - 2024
creation in the two regions. Results suggest that green spending in the Amazon offers good perspectives (but also highlights …
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Destruction, policy, and the evolving consequences of Washington, DC's 1968 Civil Disturbance
Brooks, Leah; Rose, Jonathan; Veuger, Stan - 2022
We study the aftermath of the 1968 Washington, DC civil disturbance to illuminate the mechanisms that drive urban redevelopment in the presence of low demand and racial tension. After establishing that civil disturbance property destruction was quasi-random within blocks, we show that destroyed...
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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 … affects the location and size of enterprise groups' R&D activities in different FA-regions. We find that enterprise groups … concentrate their R&D to the same regions, which are also regions with significant academic R&D (external agglomeration). Moreover …
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Commuting in Europe: An Inter-regional Analysis on its Determinants and Spatial Effects
Castelli, Chiara; Parenti, Angela - 2020
sample of 195 NUTS2 regions over the decade 2007-2017 to depict regional cross-border dynamics, thus including the impacts of … the 2008 financial crisis. The tested presence of spatial interactions among regions leads to the adoption of the Spatial …
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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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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 nearly double from 377 million today to over 600 million. Indian cities already contribute an estimated two-thirds of India's GDP, and this number is expected to rise to 75% by...
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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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The role of waterways in promoting urban resilience: The case of Kochi City
Aziz, Zeba; Ray, Indro; Paul, Sandeep - 2018
Coastal cities around the world are locales of high vulnerability. The issues are graver in the developing world where the challenges posed by the urbanisation and climate change multiply the existing risks. Here, we examine the case of Kochi, an Indian city located at the centre of a rapidly...
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