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What makes cities more productive? : evidence on the role of urban governance from five OECD countries

Ahrend, Rudiger; Farchy, Emily; Kaplanis, Ioannis; … - 2014

This paper estimates agglomeration benefits based on city productivity differentials across five OECD countries … fragmentation and productivity, and represents the first empirical analysis of how metropolitan governance structures affect this … previous literature, the analysis confirms that city productivity tends to increase with city size; doubling city size is found …

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The income-inequality relationship within U.S. metropolitan areas 1980-2016

Seifert, Friederike - 2021

Economic growth might both increase and decrease income inequality, depending on the circumstances. The nature of this relationship matters at the city level as well. This paper examines the income-inequality relationship within U.S. metropolitan areas using cross-section and panel regression...

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Income Convergence in the United States : A Tale of Migration and Urbanization

DiCecio, Riccardo - 2008

We use non-parametric distribution dynamics techniques to reassess the convergence of per capita personal income (PCPI) across U.S. states and across metropolitan and nonmetropolitan portions of states for the period 1969-2005. The long-run distribution of PCPI is bimodal for both states and...

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A comment on Scott and Storper's "the nature of cities: the scope and limits of urban theory"

Cusinato, Augusto - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 95 (2016) 4, pp. 895-901

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Sequential city growth in the US : does age matter?

González-Val, Rafael; Sánchez-Vidal, María; … - 2013

We provide empirical evidence of the dynamics of city size distribution for the whole of the twentieth century in U.S. cities and metropolitan areas. We focus our analysis on the new cities that were created during the period of analysis. The main contribution of this paper, therefore, is the...

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