This work aims to test the Verdoorn Law, with the alternative specifications of (1)Kaldor (1966), for the 28 NUTS III Portuguese in the period 1995 to 1999. It is intended to test, also in this work, the alternative interpretation of (2)Rowthorn (1975) about the Verdoorn's Law for the same...

The aim of this paper is to present a further contribution, with panel data, to the analysis of absolute convergence ( and ), associated with the neoclassical theory, and conditional, associated with endogenous growth theory, of the sectoral productivity at regional level. Presenting some...

We use US county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity. E.g., the California estimate is 19.9% and the New York estimate is 3.3%. Convergence rates are essentially uncorrelated with income levels.

This article analyzes the issues of economic competitiveness evaluation of cross-border cities under the context of urban shrinkage. Currently the "urban shrinkage" issue is on the top of the political agenda in Europe. Under the globalization conditions, especially cities, which suffer from...

Standard models explain urbanization by rural-urban migration in response to an (expected) urban-rural wage gap. The Green Revolution and rural poverty constitute rural push factors of migration. The Indus- trial Revolution and the urban bias are urban pull factors. This paper offers an...

Das nominale Bruttoinlandsprodukt pro Kopf der Lausitz liegt – für eine ostdeutsche Region typisch – auch ein Vierteljahrhundert nach der Wiedervereinigung noch um rund 20 Prozentpunkte hinter dem gesamtdeutschen Durchschnitt. In Zukunft dürfte sich der Angleichungsprozess in...

Die Erweiterungspläne für den Braunkohletagebau in der Lausitz sorgen ein halbes Jahr vor den anstehenden Landtagswahlen in Sachsen und Brandenburg für heftige politische Ausein andersetzungen zwischen Befürwortern und Gegnern des Bergbaus. Aufgrund des harten politischen Ringens um die...

Gutachten im Auftrag der Wirtschaftsinitiative Lausitz e. V. <br>Die Lausitz als länderübergreifende Region in Südbrandenburg und Ostsachsen mit mehr als einer Million Einwohnern steht wie alle Regionen Ostdeutschlands vor großen Herausforderungen. Insbesondere der dramatische...

The idea that local social capital yields economic benefits is fundamental to theories of agglomeration, and central to claims about the virtues of cities. However, this claim has not been evaluated using methods that permit more confident statements about causality. This paper examines what...

Little is known about the extent and forces of urban path dependence in developing countries.  Railroad construction in colonial Kenya provides a natural experiment to study the emergence and persistence of this spatial equilibrium.  Using new data at a fine spatial level over one century...