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Country Road Take Me Home
Betz, Michael R.; Partridge, Mark D. - In: International Regional Science Review 36 (2013) 3, pp. 267-295
This research fills a void in the regional development literature by assessing how labor force migration affects … attracting relatively wealthier net migrants. Because different relative migration elasticities imply different responses for … household incomes and employment/population rates and reducing unemployment rates and poverty rates. We find that migration post …
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Changing Racial and Poverty Segregation in Large US Metropolitan Areas, 1970–2009
Madden, Janice Fanning - In: International Regional Science Review 37 (2014) 1, pp. 9-35
As African Americans are poorer than non-African Americans, increasing racial integration might lead to increasing poverty integration. Alternatively, if racial segregation pushed higher- and lower-income African Americans to reside together, increasing racial integration may lead higher-income...
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Partial Adjustment Analysis of Income and Jobs, and Growth Regimes in the Appalachian Region with Smooth Transition Spatial Process Models
Lambert, Dayton M.; Xu, Wan; Florax, Raymond J. G. M. - In: International Regional Science Review 37 (2014) 3, pp. 328-364
In this application, income and job growth in the eastern United States are explained using a partial adjustment model with regime switching potential and spatial spillover, or “Smooth Transition†spatial process models (STAR). This relatively new class of spatial regression models...
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Economic Structure and Regional Disparity in China: Beyond the Kuznets Transition
Li, Huaqun; Haynes, Kingsley E. - In: International Regional Science Review 34 (2011) 2, pp. 157-190
The literature on regional change in post-reform China suggests a consistent pattern of increasing regional disparity during 1990s. This article explains disparity through the lens of industrial transition as reflected in the three major economic sectors, agriculture, manufacturing, and services...
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The Hoover Index of Population Concentration and the Demographic Components of Change
Rogerson, Peter A.; Plane, David A. - In: International Regional Science Review 36 (2013) 1, pp. 97-114
international migration) on settlement dynamics. These decompositions can also be applied to examine the differential contributions …
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Poverty and Place across the United States
Lobao, Linda; Jeanty, P. Wilner; Partridge, Mark; … - In: International Regional Science Review 35 (2012) 2, pp. 158-187
Many researchers advocate active local government responses to poverty and other economic disparities. In doing so, they raise a generally unexplored question: can local governments themselves influence poverty net of other determinants? This study extends past research in two ways by (1)...
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Walter Isard and the Role of Regional Science and Peace Science for the Poor Countries
Chatterji, Manas - In: International Regional Science Review 37 (2014) 1, pp. 96-106
The objective of this article is to show how the techniques of regional science and peace science can be applied for the economic development of poor countries. This article also describes techniques for integrating regional science and peace science.
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What Factors Affect Information Technology Firm Location Choices in Middle America? An Examination of Regional and Industrial Variation in Kansas
Cader, Hanas A.; Crespi, John M.; Leatherman, John C. - In: International Regional Science Review 36 (2013) 2, pp. 207-234
The importance of information technologies in regional economic performance is widely accepted but only widely studied in more populous regions in the United States. Local and state development practitioners and policy makers actively court and promote Information Technology...
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Problem-driven Research in Regional Science
Markusen, Ann - In: International Regional Science Review 38 (2015) 1, pp. 3-29
This article, based on the inaugural Andrew Isserman lecture, explores whether regional science has lived up to its founder’s aspirations to create an interdisciplinary and international field to tackle key societal problems with reasoning, evidence, and sound policy recommendations. I...
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Behavioral Housing Search Choice Set Formation
Rashidi, Taha H.; Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian - In: International Regional Science Review 38 (2015) 2, pp. 151-170
The housing search process, a topic of interest to both practitioners and researchers, starts with an alternative formation and screening practice. Due to the limitation of cognitive capacity, household members at this level evaluate potential alternatives based on many factors, such as...
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