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Sobre el tamaño de las ciudades en España. Dos reflexiones y una regularidad empírica

Goerlich, Francisco José; Mas, Matilde - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper proposes two considerations prior to the study of city size and emphasizes their importance in the testing of one of the empirical regularities most widely used by the literature, Zipf’s law. The first one refers to the importance of using a consistent database for analysis. The...

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Sobre el tamaño de las ciudades en España: Dos reflexiones y una regularidad empírica

Goerlich Gisbert, Goerlich Gisbert Francisco J.; Mas … - Fundación BBVA - 2008

This working paper proposes two considerations prior to the study of city size and emphasizes their importance in the testing of one of the empirical regularities most widely used by the literature, Zipf s law. The first refers to the importance of using a consistent database for analysis. The...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683560

Regional resilience

Lin, Jeffrey - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2012

In this paper, I study long-run population changes across U.S. metropolitan areas. First, I argue that changes over a … long period of time in the geographic distribution of population can be informative about the so-called \resilience" of … regions. Using the censuses of population from1790 to 2010, I find that persistent declines, lasting two decades or more, are …

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Fragmentation, sprawl and economic development.

Ardashev, Grigoriy V. - 2005

part of US metropolitan areas. Metropolitan areas with population between 200,000 and 1,000,000 with higher levels of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429617

Driving factors of formation, development, and change of spatial structure in metropolitan areas: A systematic review

Dadashpoor, Hashem; Malekzadeh, Neda - In: Journal of Urban Management 9 (2020) 3, pp. 286-297

In the last decades, there have been many articles on the spatial structure of metropolitan areas, but a study for explaining driving factors of changes in the spatial structure of metropolitan areas has remained unknown so far. To fill this gap, the article explains the driving factors of these...

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Robots, exports and top income inequality: Evidence for the U.S.

César, Andrés; Falcone, Guillermo; Garriga, Pablo - 2022

The last decades have witnessed a revolution in manufacturing production characterized by increasing technology adoption and a strong expansion of international trade. Simultaneously, the income distribution has exhibited both polarization and concentration among the richest. Combining datasets...

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The knowledge complexity of the European metropolitan areas: Selecting and clustering their hidden features

Bottai, Carlo; Iori, Martina - 2022

Cities are key places of economic activity, as they produce an enormous amount of wealth compared to the land they cover. Their study is, therefore, of primary importance in understanding the success of nations. Given the many interactions among people that happen within them, cities are well...

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Machine learning simulates agent-based model towards optimal policy: A surrogate model for public policy assessment

Furtado, Bernardo Alves; Andreão, Gustavo Onofore - 2023

Public policies are not intrinsically positive or negative. Rather, policies provide varying levels of effects across different recipients. Methodologically, computational modeling enables the application of a combination of multiple influences on empirical data, thus allowing for heterogeneous...

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Commute time in Brazil (1992-2009): Differences between metropolitan areas, by income levels and gender

Pereira, Rafael Henrique Moraes; Schwanen, Tim - 2013

(MAs) in the country, than the in the other MAs. Second, workers in the poorest population segment (1st income decile …

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Experiências de governança metropolitana internacional: Os casos dos Estados Unidos e do Canadá

França, Karla; Furtado, Bernardo Alves - 2013

This paper focus on aspects of metropolitan governance of the United States and Canada highlighting strategies of cooperation and criteria used in their experiences of management and institutionalization. Thus, it describes both the governance experiences implemented voluntarily or compulsorily,...

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