Though individual studies of regional disparity may deal with separate development measures - population growth, wages, welfare, regional productivity, etc. - the use of an integrated indicator is often essential, particularly if a comparative (cross-country) analysis is required. In order to...

The job-chains model of local labor market change is a demand-driven analytic device for estimating the effects of new job creation. This paper explores the effects of restricting supply, i.e. limiting job access, on the model’s primary outcomes: vacancy chain multipliers, welfare effects...

Abstract A spatial vector autoregressive model (SpVAR) is defined as a VAR which includes spatial as well as temporal lags among a vector of stationary state variables. SpVARs may contain disturbances that are spatially as well as temporally correlated. Although the structural parameters are not...

Felsenstein D. and Portnov B. A. (2005) Understanding regional inequalities in small countries, Regional Studies 39 , 647-658. This paper revisits the commonly held view that small countries do not exhibit significant regional disparities. The issue is framed as one in which the attributes of...

FELSENSTEIN D. (1997) The making of a high technology node: foreign-owned companies in Israeli high technology, Reg. Studies 31, 367-380. This paper conceptualizes the role of Israel's high technology sector as that of a node in a global production network. A node can be characterized by the...

This paper looks at the determinants of regional housing construction using Israeli panel data. We propose a simple model of regional housing markets in which people prefer to live where housing is cheaper and building contractors prefer to build in regions where housing is more expensive. We...

<title>Abstract</title> Spatial impulses are derived for SAR models containing a spatial unit root. Analytical solutions are obtained for lateral space where the number of spatial units tends to infinity. Numerical solutions are obtained for finite regular lattices where edge-effects are shown to influence...

This article claims that the local welfare effects of employment generation are often treated inadequately in the evaluation of economic development programs. Opportunity costs of labor are often either ignored or overstated, resulting in misleading indicators of welfare changes. Appropriately...

The literature on regional growth convergence and economic disparities has tended to confound four interwoven measurement phenomena: 1) mean reversion (so-called beta convergence)—richer regions move towards the average from above and poorer regions from below; 2) diminishing inequality...