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Mind the remoteness! : income disparities across Japanese prefectures
López Rodríguez, Jesús; Nakamura, Daisuke - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 2, pp. 393-417
In this paper we analyze the role played by Market access to explain income disparities among Japanese Prefectures for different periods of time. The results of the estimations suggest that 1) Market access plays an important role in the explanation of income disparities in Japan, 2) the effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009668538
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Mind the Remoteness! Income Disparities Across Japanese Prefectures
Nakamura, Daisuke - 2020
In this paper we analyze the role played by Market access to explain income disparities among Japanese Prefectures for different periods of time. The results of the estimations suggest that 1) Market access plays an important role in the explanation of income disparities in Japan, 2) the effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857271
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Mind the remoteness! Income disparities across Japanese prefectures
López-Rodríguez, Jesús; Nakamura, Daisuke - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 2, pp. 393-417
In this paper we analyze the role played by Market access to explain income disparities among Japanese Prefectures for different periods of time. The results of the estimations suggest that 1) Market access plays an important role in the explanation of income disparities in Japan, 2) the effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538728
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Silk, Regional Rivalry, and the Impact of the Port Openings in Nineteenth Century Japan
Atsumi, Toshihiro - 2009
The centre of economic activities in Japan was once in western Japan. Since the mid-nineteenth century, however, economic activities within Japan have been continuously shifting towards the east side of the country including Tokyo. Conventional wisdom associates the end of the Tokugawa feudal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205495
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Impacts of High-Speed Rail Construction on Urban Agglomerations : Evidence from Kyushu in Japan
Okamoto, Chigusa - 2019
High-speed rail integrates regions and cities, and thus can possibly have significant impacts on the distribution of economic activities. Using the opening and extensions of a high-speed rail, Shinkansen, in Kyushu, Japan, we examine its effects on the distribution of economic activities across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861639
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The number-average size rule : a new empirical relationship between industrial location and city size
Mori, Tomoya; Nishikimi, Koji; Smith, Tony E. - In: Journal of regional science 48 (2008) 1, pp. 165-211
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003661149
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Divergence - is it Geography?
Urban, Dieter M.; Straubhaar, Thomas; Suhrcke, Marc - 2002
wavelength of agglomeration forces seems to be rather small in Europe. Human capital and R&D are transmission channels of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014121343
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Role of inter-firm transactions on industrial agglomeration : evidence from Japanese firm-level data
Nakajima, Kentaro; Saito, Yukiko; Uesugi, Iichiro - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009726912
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Strategic location behaviour : the case of Japanese investments in Europe
Mayer, Thierry - In: Journal of transnational management development 3 (1998) 3, pp. 131-167
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Does labor diversity cause agglomeration in Japan? : an NEG approach with a covariance structure analysis
Ihara, Ryusuke; Yamamoto, Shizu - 2012
Using a simplified NEG model, we investigates the relation between labor diversity and agglomeration. In the ….e. agglomeration caused by labor demand) implies the agglomeration of capital leads workers to concentrate. The forward linkage (i ….e. agglomeration caused by labor supply) implies the increase in the number of workers enhances labor diversity and causes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515568