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There is enormous demand for high quality, reliable broadband service in regional Australia. But despite years of … planning and promises, significant action to improve access to broadband services has not yet taken place in regional Australia … schedule. This paper explores the need for better broadband in regional Australia and outlines the failure of the NBN to …
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This paper analyzes the e ffect of regional income inequality within countries on individual life satisfaction. We use … from 1981-2008. Regional income inequality is measured by the coeffi cient of variation of regional GDP per capita. We find … that higher regional income inequality leads to lower life satisfaction in OECD countries. In non-OECD countries, we find …
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In this paper we take a detailed look at the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in German regions over the period 1978 … categorize all German regions into one out of three groups with pro-trend , anti-trend or featureless regional growth. Afterwards …
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There has been vast interest in the distribution of city sizes in an economy, but this research has largely neglected that cities also differ along another fundamental dimension: age. Using novel data on the foundation dates of almost 8,000 American cities, we find that older cities in the US...
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Urban renewal areas are popular instruments in spatial planning to prevent urban decline and to induce urban renewal. 22 renewal areas were implemented in Berlin, Germany alone between 1993 and 1995, mainly to increase housing and living quality in the aftermath of the city s long division...
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To address the challenges in rural areas the support for rural development with participatory approaches has a long tradition in EU funding programmes. One corresponding instrument is LEADER, which is a place-based, participatory approach to bring together public, private and civil society...
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We study environmental pollution in an economic geography framework with two cities, where pollution arises from commuting within cities, goods transport between cities, production of manufacturing and agricultural goods, and residential energy use. We find that city size has an ambiguous effect...
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regional economy as a whole. Yet, little is still known empirically how important these spillover effects are for economic …-study approach. We find sizeable negative spillover effects on the regional economy: regions, and especially firms producing in the …
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Large regional unemployment disparities are a common feature of the labor market in many countries. This study deals … with the question whether regional unemployment disparities in western Germany widen, become narrower or remain constant … over time. It examines the hypothesis of convergence for regional unemployment rates of western German Federal States and …
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