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This paper presents a theoretical approach to solve the main problems faced to explain the relationship between aggregate economic growth and the urban structure. The most significant conclusion reached is that there is a theoretical relationship between aggregate economic growth and urban...
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also uneven across space, it also seems relevant to wonder about the effects of the geographic agglomeration of economic … activity. Moreover, it seems relevant to consider not only the levels of inequality and agglomeration, but also their change … specifications and introducing different measures for agglomeration at country level, especially urbanization and urban concentration …
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Today more than half of the 7 billion inhabitants of the planet live in urban areas, with this share expected to keep rising. Whereas in developed countries urbanisation has been a long and slow process, in developing countries this process is now characterised by a really fast pace and a high...
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emphasized in the New Economic Geography (NEG) literature. Both growth and agglomeration processes are, however, themselves … uncertainty impacts upon growth and agglomeration. The main results are twofold. First, nonzero mortality rates support a more … equal distribution of productive factors by introducing an additional dispersion force that countervails the agglomeration …
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We study neighbourhood externalities caused by large public investments in poor neighbourhoods. A stylised theory of a linear city is proposed to guide interpretation of the magnitude and attenuation of the external effects generated by these public investments. We use a large Dutch nationwide...
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are economically important and significant. The results reveal that a 10 percent increase in plant agglomeration increases … the improvement of infrastructure and support to reap the benefits that arise from agglomeration externalities. …
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Deindustrialization and Tertiarization and the Polarization of Household Incomes: The Example of German Agglomerations The deindustrialization of the economy has left deep scars on cities. It is evident not only in the industrial wastelands and empty factory buildings scattered throughout the...
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This paper investigates whether labor mobility varies with the degree of agglomeration and, if so, how the differences … market, one of Marshall's famous three sources of agglomeration economies. Only a small number of studies have so far … to the still sparse literature on the effect of both urban and industrial agglomeration on labor market pooling. Taking …
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We examine the effects of urbanization and localization on four distinct types of innovation in manufacturing and services. Furthermore, estimating multilevel panel regression models, we investigate the sorting of highly innovative firms into dense urban regions by considering both observable...
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relational proximity influences economic development more intensively than effects of agglomeration and geographical proximity do. …
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