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Aglomerações urbanas no Brasil e na América do sul : trajetórias e novas configurações
Moura, Rosa; Pêgo Filho, Bolívar - 2016
The Urban Network and Territory research, developing in the Directory of Studies and Regional, Urban and Environmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489997
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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231018
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Forma urbana e mobilidade sustentável : evidências de cidades brasileiras
Pereira, Rafael Henrique Moraes; Parga, João Pedro … - 2022
Global South and particularly in Brazil. In this study, we examine the extent to which the urban form of Brazilian cities … impacts their urban mobility energy consumption. First, we present a descriptive analysis of how urban areas in Brazil have … per capita used in private motorized transport in the 182 largest urban areas in Brazil are affected by different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013489643
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Cities as Engines of Opportunities : Evidence from Brazil
Barza, Radu; Glaeser, Edward L.; Hidalgo, César A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
low-income workers in Brazil for thirteen years to explore the contribution of factors such as industrial structure and … skill segregation on upward income mobility. We find that cities in the south of Brazil are more effective engines of upward … prevalent in the cities of southern Brazil than in northern cities. This segregation, which can decline with specialization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544705
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Regic: trajetória, variações e hierarquia urbana em 2018
Moura, Rosa; Nagamine, Liria; Ferreira, Gustavo - 2021
In this text for discussion, a synthesis of the trajectory of the line of research on the Regions of Influence of Brazilian Cities, developed by IBGE, whose content excels in the longevity, systematcity and timeliness of complex research that expresses the Brazilian urban network since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584243
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Inequality, reordering and divergent growth : processes of neighbourhood change in dutch cities
Modai-Snir, Tal; Ham, Maarten van - 2018
The socio-economic mosaic of urban neighbourhoods changes under the influence of three distinctive distributional processes: reordering of the socio-economic position of urban neighbourhoods; changing levels of inequality between neighbourhoods; and an overall growth or decline in income levels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925323
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Cities and green growth : the case of the Chicago Tri-State metropolitan area
2013
This working paper assesses opportunities and policies for green growth in the Chicago Tri-State Metropolitan Area. It first examines the Chicago metro-region's economic and environmental performance and potential constraints to regional growth, and identifies emerging regional specialisations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767306
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Spatial conditions for development of activation of peripheral areas : the case of northern Poland
Sołtys, Jacek - 2012
The areas located outside metropolitan areas and also outside areas activated through other big cities are called peripheries. There are big differences between the levels of development of metropolitan and peripheral areas in Poland. There are also great differences in opportunities to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506989
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Spatial dynamics of labor markets in Brazil
Chomitz, Kenneth M.; Mata, Daniel da; Carvalho, … - 2015
There was substantial spatial variation in labor market outcomes in Brazil over the 1990's. In 2000, about one fifth of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025189
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Place-based policies and agglomeration economies : firm-level evidence from special economic zones in India
Görg, Holger; Mulyukova, Alina - 2022
This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012876131