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Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...
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We study entrepreneurship and growth through the lens of U.S. cities. Initial entrepreneurship correlates strongly with urban employment growth, but endogeneity bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near cities led to specialization in industries, like steel, with...
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This chapter on urbanization and growth focuses on modeling and empirical evidence that pertain to a number of inter … level of individual cities. In the early stages of growth, economic development is characterized by urbanization – a spatial … aspects of the transformation? In any static, growth, or development–urbanization context, how do governance, institutions …
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Today more than half of the 7 billion inhabitants of the planet live in urban areas, with this share expected to keep rising. Whereas in developed countries urbanisation has been a long and slow process, in developing countries this process is now characterised by a really fast pace and a high...
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This paper aims to study the effect of a major historical event on the Spanish city size distribution, the Spanish Reconquista. This was a long military campaign that aimed to expel Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula. The process started in the early 1200s and ended around 1500, when the entire...
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urbanization are unsustainably high. Deep existing deficits in basic urban services such as housing, transit, water, sanitation and …
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I use German administrative data for 2001-2010 to analyse the impact of urbanization and firm characteristics on wage …
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In light of the United Nations' (UN) latest urbanization projections, par- ticularly with respect to India and the … People's Republic of China, a good understanding is needed of what drives aggregate urbanization trends. Yet, previous … Urbanization Prospects, we use an instrumental variables approach to identify and analyze key urbanization determinants. We …
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infrastructure and effective policy reforms. This study investigates that, how urbanization impacts economic growth and development … to find the relationship of human capital and urbanization and their convergence towards economic growth through capacity … development. Secondly, it examines the role of urbanization in the formation of human capital and to find the channels through …
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This paper analyses the determinants of growth of American cities, understood as growth of the population or of per capita income, from 1990 to 2000. This empirical analysis uses data from all cities with more than 25,000 inhabitants in the year 2000 (1154 cities). The results show that while a...
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