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Development of industrial estates, ports and metropolitan and alternative roads in the Greater Hanoi Area

Nguyen, Binh Giang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper outlined the urbanization as well as the development of the industrial parks and transportation infrastructure in the Greater Hanoi area. It is worth to note that the transportation infrastructure in Greater Hanoi has been growing very fast during the past 20 years. It has not,...

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How Do the Effects of Local Growth on Employment Rates Vary With Initial Labor Market Conditions

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2006

This paper examines how the effects of increased employment growth on a metropolitan area’s employment to population … ratio varies with the initial tightness of the metropolitan area’s labor market. This examination is relevant to evaluating … the benefits of local economic development policies in different metropolitan areas. Much of the benefits of such policies …

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Metropolization – A System of Equations with Many Unknowns

Negucioiu, Aurel - In: Knowledge Horizons - Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 72-89

At present, we acknowledge more and more that metropolis and metropolization represent major problems of certain cognitive and practical actuality. In spite of all this, they continue to be insufficiently known, representing a system of equations with many unknown factors. The following lines...

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Metropolitan/non-metropolitan divergence: A spatial Markov chain approach

Hammond, George - In: Papers in Regional Science 83 (2004) 3, pp. 543-563

This article examines spatial aspects of distributional dynamics and finds that the distribution of US metropolitan … incomes relative to their neighbours has diverged during the 1969-1999 period. Use of a spatial Markov approach shows that non-metropolitan … neighbours of metropolitan regions have tended to converge during the period, with roughly equal rates of upward and downward …

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Determinants of Income Growth in U.S. Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Labor Markets

Hammond, George W.; Thompson, Eric - Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics - 2006

significant differences in the relative influence of growth determinants between metropolitan and non-metropolitan regions during … the 1969-1999 period. We find little role for public capital investment in either metropolitan or non-metropolitan regions …, but that manufacturing investment tended to spur growth in non-metropolitan regions, in contrast to results for …

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Geography, policy or market? New evidence on the measurement and causes of sprawl (and infill) in US metropolitan regions

Paulsen, Kurt - In: Urban Studies 51 (2014) 12, pp. 2629-2645

This paper proposes four metrics to measure sprawl in metropolitan regions as marginal changes in land use over time … metropolitan areas in the continental USA for 1980 and 2000. Regression analysis is used to explain variations in sprawl metrics … across metropolitan areas, incorporating variables representing market, geographic and policy factors. Changes in development …

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