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Significance of public space in the fragmented city : designing strategies for urban opportunities in informal settlements of Buenos Aires city
Janches, Flavio - 2011
This article surveys the problem of urban marginalization by one of its more critical expressions in the contemporary city: the slums. The aim is to define an urban design strategy for the integration of those settlements as part of the city context, which enables to find solutions for the...
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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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Federal, state, and local governments : evaluating their separate roles in US growth
Higgins, Matthew J. (contributor);  … - 2008
We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...
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Dynamic clusters
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007
Globalization has had an enormous impact on traditional industrial structures. It seems almost the case that everything is everywhere the same. And yet, in reality, some regions in a single industrialized country enjoy rapid economic growth while others are downsizing or stagnating. Thus there...
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Heterogeneous convergence
Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel C. - 2013 - Last Revision: April 2013
We use U.S. county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity …. E.g., the California estimate is 19.9 percent and the New York estimate is 3.3 percent. Convergence rates are … essentially uncorrelated with income levels. -- Economic Growth ; Conditional Convergence ; Heterogeneity ; U.S. County Level Data …
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Methods of analyzing the relationship between new business formation and regional development
Fritsch, Michael - 2012
The paper reviews the approaches that have been followed for analyzing the effect of new business formation on regional development. It begins with an outline of how start-ups may affect regional development. In dealing with different ways of empirically assessing these effects, I particularly...
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Economic Freedom, Entrepreneurship, & Income Levels : Some US State-Level Empirics
Wiseman, Travis - 2013
Recent literatures on entrepreneurship and economic growth estimate the empirical relationships between the following pairs of variables: (1) institutions and entrepreneurial activity; (2) institutions and economic growth; and (3) entrepreneurship and economic growth.This paper revisits each of...
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Institutions Versus Geography : Subnational Evidence from the United States
Clifton, Eric V. - 2006
Empirical studies of the impact of geography and institutions on growth and development at the international level have become common place, but the high degree of abstraction at that level has led to calls for subnational studies. This paper examines these issues for a region of the United...
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Defining the Record of High-Growth Firms by U.S. Metropolitan Region : What Happens to the Inc. 500?
Rice, Murray - 2016
Development of an improved definition of the characteristics of business growth and change is an important need for the wide audience that is interested in economic development. This study devotes attention to the intersection of two areas of research interest: the development of firms, and the...
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Entrepreneurship, Corruption, and the Size of U.S. Underground Economies
Wiseman, Travis - 2015
Using state-level data on productive and unproductive entrepreneurship, shadow economy size, and public official corruption, this paper examines whether formal sector productive (unproductive) entrepreneurial activity is associated with lower (higher) levels of informal economic activity....
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