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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 … agricultural land for building. For migrants to better integrate in the cities where they work, their access and that of their …
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.S. cities and metropolitan areas. We focus our analysis on the new cities that were created during the period of analysis. The … experienced by these new-born cities. Our results enable us to confirm that, when cities appear, they grow very rapidly and, as …
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.S. cities and metropolitan areas. We focus our analysis on the new cities that were created during this period. The main …-born cities. Our results enable us to confirm that when cities appear they grow very rapidly and, as the decades pass, their … driven by the cities' first decade of existence. This evidence is consistent with the theoretical framework regarding mean …
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.S. cities and metropolitan areas. We focus our analysis on the new cities that were created during the period of analysis. The … experienced by these new-born cities. Our results enable us to confirm that, when cities appear, they grow very rapidly and, as … of the growth differential is driven by the cities' first decade of existence. This is consistent with the theoretical …
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This paper tests two major competing theories explaining the spatial concentration of economic activity, namely new economic geography theory (NEG) which emphasizes varying market potential, and urban economics theory (UE) in which the main emphasis is on producer service linkages. Using wage...
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The cities and towns of India constitute the world’s second largest urban system besides contributing over 50 per cent … urban India. By considering 59 large cities in India and employing new economic geography models, this paper investigates … cities and the effect of urban agglomeration on India’s urban economic growth are estimated. The empirical results show that …
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Economic integration affects economic development through two main channels: growth and localization of the economic activities. The theories of endogenous growth and economic geography enable us to understand these mechanisms. We study in this paper their similarities and specificities before...
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Die Ergebnisse der Anpassung nach Arbeitsnachfrageschocks am Arbeitsort für Bundesländer und Kreise nach dem Modell von Blanchard/Katz (1992) entsprechen den Ergebnissen aus anderen Studien in diesem Bereich. Sie zeigen, dass die Anpassung auf regionsspezifische Schocks im Jahr des Schocks...
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This paper analyses the impact of skill portfolios and labour mobility on plant performance by means of a unique database that connects attributes of individuals to features of plants for the whole Swedish economy. We found that a portfolio of related competences at the plant level increases...
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This study investigates the relationship between labour market externalities and regional growth based on real labour flows. In particular, we test for the importance of labour mobility across so-called skill-related industries. We make use of a sophisticated indicator that measures the degree...
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