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Plague and long-term development: the lasting effects of the 1629-30 epidemic on the Italian cities
Alfani, Guido; Percoco, Marco - 2016
a long-lasting damage to the size of Italian urban populations and to urbanization rates. These findings support the …
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Demography, Democracy, Development and Urban Protest in Sub-Saharan Africa
Fox, Sean - 2021
emerge: urban protest incidence is negatively associated with a country’s level of urbanization and degree of press freedom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221898
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What's in a Name? Initial Geography and German Urban Development
Nguyen, Duc A.; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2023
Place names, or toponyms, provide insight into the initial geographical characteristics of settlements. We present a unique dataset of 3,705 German toponyms that includes the date of the first historical record mentioning the settlement and the date it was granted city rights. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356325
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Urban political structure and inequality : political economy lessons from early modern German cities
Schaff, Felix - 2022
What was the impact of urban political structure on economic inequality in preindustrial times? I document that more closed political institutions were associated with higher economic inequality in a panel of early modern German cities. To investigate the mechanisms behind that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170896
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What's in a name? : initial geography and German urban development
Nguyen, Duc A.; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2023
Place names, or toponyms, provide insight into the initial geographical characteristics of settlements. We present a unique dataset of 3,705 German toponyms that includes the date of the first historical record mentioning the settlement and the date it was granted city rights. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014281491
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Urban Autonomy : Fiefs, Communities and King Owned Towns in South Italy (1000-1806)
Gatti, Fabio - 2022
Urban governance has been considered a key feature in the political and economic development in Europe in the medieval and early modern times. This paper aims to explore the different institutional settings that characterized the community organization in the Kingdom of Naples, with a particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013405131
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Tourism fuels an emerging city : the case of Tagbilaran City, Bohol
Acejo, Iris; Del Prado, Fatima Lourdes; Remolino, Darlyne - 2004
This paper traces the urbanization experience of Tagbilaran City, Bohol taking into account the demographic development … urban status. It also looks into the nature and magnitude of government responses to the demands of increasing urbanization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431935
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Divergence of human capital in cities in the People's Republic of China : exploring complementarities and spatial agglomeration of the workforce with various skills
Liang, Wenquan; Lu, Ming - 2016
In cities, complementarity between a low-skilled and a high-skilled workforce can promote each other to improve labor productivity. In this study, we used earlier census data and 1% population survey data to examine the distribution of the skilled workforce in cities in the People's Republic of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011488140
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Urbanization and economic development in Russia
Kolomak, Evgenija A. - 2012
The paper studies trends in the urbanization in Russia and compares them with the global ones. Russia has high level of … urbanization, urban population reached 73% in 1990, and the rate of urbanization fluctuates around this level past 20 years. The …, 1999, and 2004. The paper discusses advantages and disadvantages of the urbanization to the economic development and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522573
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Testing the role of urban development in the conventional Environmental Kuznets Curve : evidence from Turkey
Katircioğlu, Setareh; Katırcıoğlu, Salih Turan - In: Applied economics letters 25 (2018) 11, pp. 741-746
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