Unless literally forced to leave, prospective refugees have a choice between staying and flight, subject to constraints, particularly the willingness of a country to grant asylum. Although all options may be unpleasant, they nonetheless represent alternatives amenable to economic analysis, The...

Books reviewed: Meric S. Gertler. Manufacturing Culture: The Institutional Geography of Industrial Practice Jamie Peck and Henry Waichung Yeung. Remaking the Global Economy: Economic-Geographical Perspectives Ake E. Andersson, Borje Johansson, and William P. Anderson. The Economics of...

This research was motivated by the increasing number of foreign students and scientists who are in the United States on temporary visas who are able to change their status to permanent immigrant. Origin countries, among them industrialized western European nations, are concerned about losing...

Books Reviewed: Michael L. Lahr and Ronald E. Miller (eds.), Regional Science Perspectives in Economic Analysis: A Festschrift in Memory of Benjamin H. Stevens Graham Clarke and Moss Madden (eds.), Regional Science in Business Luis Suarez-Villa, Invention and the Rise of Technocapitalism Sam...

In this paper, a spatial simultaneous growth equilibrium model of employment growth, migration behavior, median household income and local public expenditures is developed. The model is empirically estimated by Generalized Spatial Three-Stage Least Squares estimator using count- level data from...

In this paper we develop a spatial panel simultaneous-equations model of employment growth, migration behavior, local public services and median household income in a partial lag-adjustment growth-equilibrium framework and utilizing a one-way error component model for the disturbances. To...

In this paper we develop an autoregressive spatial simultaneous equations model to investigate the county-level determinants of small business growth and median household income in Appalachia during the period 1990-2000. Our GS2SLS and GS3SLS estimation results indicate significant spatial...

Entrepreneurship is now recognized as a strategy to achieve economic growth in many regions. The goal of this paper is to increase the understanding of entrepreneurship's contributions to economic growth and its potential as a development strategy for a region, such as Appalachia, characterized...

In this paper we develop a spatial panel simultaneous-equations model of business growth, migration behavior, local public services and median household income in a partial lag-adjustment growth-equilibrium framework and utilizing a one-way error component model for the disturbances. This model...

<heading id="h1" level="1" format="inline" implicit="no">Abstract</heading>This paper examines the relationship between quality of life, rural development, and several socioeconomic variables. The analysis utilizes data obtained from a survey questionnaire administered to a random sample of more than 2,000 residents in West Virginia, and spatial data obtained...