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Spatial concentration of Indian service industries in rural and urban areas : a micro-unit-level analysis
Agarwal, Sugam; Ranjan Behera, Smruti - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-19
examine knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) industries' spatial concentration patterns and geographical concentration … concentration effect varies in rural and urban areas. Further, empirical results reveal that KIBS industries are localized in rural … suggest that urban planners and district municipal authorities can give more emphasis and implement suitable KIBS industry …
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Agglomeration Externalities in Ecuador. Do Urbanisation and Tertiarisation Matter?
Working Paper Series, GATE - 2018
The paper investigates whether the tertiarisation and the rapid urbanisation faced by developing countries favour agglomeration economies. Focusing on Ecuadorian cantons, a productivity equation is estimated using the GMM model with instruments controlling for endogeneity. The varying impact of...
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Gig and independent work in US metropolitan economies and service industries
Harpel, Ellen - In: European review of service economics and management (2020) 1/9, pp. 153-176
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The intrametropolitan geography of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) : a comparative analysis of six European and U.S. city-regions
Ávila Serrano, Vicente Romero de - In: Economic development quarterly : the journal of … 33 (2019) 4, pp. 279-295
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Metropolregionen: Impulsgeber für Strukturwandel und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung
Stiller, Silvia; Sünner, Isabel - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 93 (2013) 7, pp. 471-475
Städte und ihr Umland bilden vielerorts in Deutschland dynamische Wachstumsregionen. Aufgrund ihrer Bevölkerungsgröße und der hohen Zahl an Arbeitsplätzen gehen von diesen Metropolregionen Impulse für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung Deutschlands insgesamt aus. Dabei konzentrieren sich die...
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Labor market pooling, outsourcing and labor contracts
Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2009
Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265995
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Labor market pooling, outsourcing and labor contracts
Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2009
Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269616
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Political Institutionalisation and Economic Specialisation in Polycentric Metropolitan Regions – The Case of the East-German ‘Saxony Triangle’
Franz, Peter; Hornych, Christoph - 2009
The rising attention of politicians as well as scientists in the EU to the large urban agglomerations as centres of economic growth is accompanied by political efforts to identify and to demarcate such agglomerations under the label 'metropolitan regions'. This study develops a theoretical...
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Relaxing Hukou: Increased labor mobility and China's economic geography
Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2010
China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on...
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Agglomeration in Europe in the context of socio-ecological transition
Styczynska, Izabela; Zaman, Constantin - 2012
This paper analyses the spatial distribution of economic activity in the European Union at NUTS2 level over the 2001-2010 period. The aim of the study is twofold: (i) to provide descriptive evidence of the agglomeration distribution in Europe and its evolution over time across countries; (ii) to...
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