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examined upon two perspectives regarding its historical background. Firstly, the centrality in regional terms - the influence … that changes in regional centrality affect urban centrality as well the process of occupation and land use in the city. On …
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Regional corridors are popular components of regional cooperation initiatives and have been in use for several years … terms of content and implications. This paper elaborates on a simple framework for regional corridors development in the … context of regional cooperation, anchored on two dimensions of these corridors: the extent to which they are national or …
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supermarket value chains and how those firms' participation might stimulate growth through regional trade. Our results show that … local processing firms' participation in regional supermarket value chains is constrained by a number of factors that pose …
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This paper presents a detailed analysis of voters‟ responses to municipality and regional-level unemployment and …. The preferred specification suggests that a reduction in regional unemployment by one percentage point is associated with … regional level, is substantial in size, but statistically insignificant. At the municipality level, unemployment has a smaller …
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Gegenstand zahlreicher regionalökonomischer Untersuchungen ist die Spezialisierung von Regionen auf eine oder wenige Branchen und die gemeinsame Standortwahl von Unterneh-men, also regionale Konzentration. Bevor jedoch die Gründe für die Verteilung ökonomischer Aktivität im Raum erforscht...
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geographically clustered business activities, in order to stimulate regional innovation. Underlying the relation between clusters and … collaborate intensively, many regional clusters are mere co-locations of firms. To enhance our understanding of why some clusters …
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The objective of this paper is to better understand how the population growth rates of rural regions are affected by their closeness to urban regions and by the economic performance of the latter. By means of a cross-sectional analysis of OECD TL3 regions, it identifies the growth spillover...
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This paper provides a review of the literature on U.S. central city growth and distress during the second half of the twentieth century.It finds that city growth tended to be higher in metropolitan areas with favorable weather, higher growth, and greater human capital, while distress was...
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Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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structures, including the polycentricity of urban systems at national, regional and metropolitan scale. By using a harmonised …
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