In this article we analyze the evolution of relative per capita income distribution of Brazilian municipalities over the period 1970-1996. Our analyses are based on nonparametric methodologies and do not assume probability distributions or functional forms for the data. We have carried out two...

This paper examines city formation in a country whose urban population is growing steadily over time, with new cities required to accommodate this growth. In contrast to most of the literature there is immobility of housing and urban infrastructure, and investment in these assets is taken on the...

Differences in geopolitical regions of Nigeria are not debatable. However, there is no clear consensus on the dimension of these disparities. In this paper, claims of geopolitical region disparities in labor market outcomes are investigated using survey data from Nigeria between 1996-1999. Both...

The paper deals with child labour in developing countries. We address a problem that has recently drawn much attention at the international level, that is, how to invest in women’s rights to advance the rights of both women and children. We study the problem from a new perspective. In our...

We investigate regional differences in the level and the development of regional new business formation activity. There is a pronounced variance of start-up rates across the regions. The level of regional new firm formation is rather path-dependent so that changes are relatively small. The main...

The paper Investigates stability and change of regional economic activities in the long-run. As the unit of analysis we selected the machine tool industry in West Germany for the years 1953 to 2002. We spot a strong variance in the activities between the different regions. These differences are...

Local industrial clusters have attracted much attention in the recent economic and geographical literature. A huge number of case studies have been conducted. This paper presents a meta-analysis of the case studies of 159 local industrial clusters in various countries and industries. Based on an...

El estudio del tamaño de las ciudades es de gran importancia y relevancia, en la medida que está estrechamente relacionado con el crecimiento económico y el desarrollo urbano. En el presente documento se realiza un análisis del tamaño de las ciudades en Colombia y la Costa Caribe y la...

El objetivo de este trabajo es, de una parte, presentar la evolución territorial del crecimiento económico, a partir de la contrastación de la hipótesis planteada por la Nueva Geografía Económica, referida a la localización espacial de actividades empresariales en las regiones españolas...

Para el período 1980 - 1994 se aporta evidencia empírica sobre los vínculos teóricos entre las disparidades regionales y el crecimiento. En la primera parte, se discute sobre los determinantes de los patrones regionales de crecimiento, haciendo endógena la política fiscal, la inestabilidad...