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A new regional balance : regional specialization and growth : an analysis of spatial divergence in Northern Europe
Cornett, Andreas P. - 2015 - Extended abstract
Changing pattern of global specialization and trade has affected the regional economic landscape in Europe significantly during the last decades, often even more than endogenous factors or policy measures. After a period of conversion, processes of diversion has reentered the scene, particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481779
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Cost of living and wages in the Brazilian metropolitans regions
Almeida, Alexandre Nunes de; Spolador, Humberto … - 2014 - (Preliminary draft)
This paper analyses the relationship between household cost of living and wages in the Brazilian metropolitan regions. The country's economic growth in the last decade contributed significantly to structural economic changes at the regional level, in terms of employment, population growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011504384
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Regional Convergence – And Divergence – In the US
Miles, William - 2019
Previous studies on regional convergence in the US have employed varied methodologies and yielded different conclusions. Some authors report evidence that convergence has grown stronger in recent decades, while others find recent years have seen an end to convergence. We test for convergence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870003
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OECD Extended Regional Typology : The Economic Performance of Remote Rural Regions
Brezzi, Monica - 2011
for regions in North America (Canada, Mexico and the United States) and Europe. The extended typology is used to compare … and services. Remote rural regions appear economically more fragile: lower employment rates (Canada and Mexico) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444121
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Regional GDP in Mexico, 1895-2010
Aguilar Retureta, José; Badia-Miró, Marc; Herranz … - In: Time and space : Latin American regional development in …, (pp. 211-239). 2020
analysing the case of Mexico from 1895 to 2010. Economic differences among Mexican regions are substantial and have been … may have different trends and determinants from those of the industrialized economies. In the case of Mexico, regional … activity in Mexico City and a clear division between the rich North and the poor South. By contrast, the period from 1940 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415496
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Regional inflation convergence in Turkey
Duran, Hasan Engin - 2015
The aim of the present article is to analyze the convergence of regional inflation rates in Turkey from 2004 to 2015 by adopting a distribution dynamics approach, namely discrete time Markovian chains. Convergence across regional inflation rates is politically a crucial matter for two reasons....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011284224
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The spatial distribution of creative industries and cultural heritage in the Netherlands
Kourtit, Karima; Möhlmann, Jan L.; Nijkamp, Peter; … - 2013
This paper aims to investigate whether the spatial pattern of creative industries in the Netherlands has a relationship with the presence of cultural heritage or, in a more general sense, cultural capital. It first shows how the creative sector developed between 1994 - 2009 in relation to other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226570
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Adult mortality in Russian rural areas : inter-regional comparisons
Blinova, Tatiana; Bylina, Svetlana - 2011
Regions of the Russian Federation draw up purpose-oriented programs aiming at improving the health and reducing the mortality among the population. The task of decreasing the mortality among the rural population, especially overcoming the phenomenon of "excess mor-tality" among the people of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544696
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Effects of cultural diversity on economic performance in Russian regions
Limonov, Leonid Ė.; Nesena, Marina - 2015
Cultural diversity in modern Russian society is determined, first, by the composition of the ethnic and cultural space, sometimes historically rooted in the distant past, and, second, by migration. Given the spatial characteristics of Russia, cultural diversity of cities and regions is driven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483798
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Geographical zoning of Russia : 54th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International
Gorbanyov, Vladimir - 2014
Russia has 11 economic regions - areas that differ from one another in their specialization, a special place in the geographical division of labor. However, the economic zoning of Russia, played a great role in the development of the economic potential of the USSR, largely out of date. Many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011486667