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Divided Cities: Increasing Socio-Spatial Polarization within Large Cities in the Netherlands

Zwiers, Merle; Kleinhans, Reinout; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

There is increasing evidence that our societies are polarizing. Most studies focus on labour market and educational outcomes and show a socioeconomic polarization of the bottom and top ends of the population distribution. Processes of social polarization have a spatial dimension which should be...

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Why Are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?

Chamon, Marcos D.; Prasad, Eswar S. - In: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 2 (2010) 1, pp. 93-130

From 1995 to 2005, the average urban household savings rate in China rose by 7 percentage points, to about one-quarter of disposable income. Savings rates increased across all demographic groups, and the age profile of savings has an unusual pattern in recent years, with younger and older...

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The Great Divide: “Ruralisation” of Poverty in Russia

Gerry, Christopher J; Nivorozhkin, Eugene; Rigg, John - Centre for Comparative Economics, School of Slavonic … - 2007

Using data from the RLMS for the period 2000-2004 we investigate poverty trends in Russia. We find that urban poverty declines at twice the rate of rural poverty so that by 2004 poverty in Russia had become a largely rural phenomenon for the first time since transition began. This finding does...

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Population density and regional welfare efficiency

Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

evaluation. In addition, the impact of external factors can be directly measured and evaluated accordingly. …

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Zhang, Jun - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2011

This paper contributes to the Evolutionary Economic Geography literature by employing the conceptualization of Ôrelated varietyÕ to compare the emerging internet industry in ChinaÕs two largest city-regions: Beijing and Shanghai. Official website registration records, Alexa internet traffic...

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Zum Zusammenhang zwischen Gründungen und regionaler Entwicklung

Fritsch, Michael - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2003

analyses for West German regions show that an impact of new firm formation can only be found for the development in the 1990s …, but not for the 1980s. There are indications that a considerable part of the impact of new firm formation on regional … development is long term in nature. In East Germany the impact of new firm formation on growth seems to be much stronger than in …

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Entrepreneurship, entry and performance of new business compared in two growth regimes: East and West Germany

Fritsch, Michael - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2004

The paper provides an outline of the concept of regional growth regimes and empirically illustrates the relevance of the concept. The empirical examples are entrepreneurship, entry and the performance of new businesses in East and West Germany. The differences of the factors determining the...

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Industry Cluster and Regional Economic Growth : Evidence from Hungary

Lengyel, Bal痙s; Iwasaki, Ichiro; Szanyi, Mikl齠 - In: Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics 51 (2010) 2, pp. 93-112

Using census-type data of Hungarian firms, we test major hypotheses of spatial economic theories focusing on the impact … and market concentrations have a significant positive impact on production growth. This finding strongly supports the …

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The Fundamental Institutions of China's Reforms and Development

Xu, Chenggang - In: Journal of Economic Literature 49 (2011) 4, pp. 1076-1151

China's economic reforms have resulted in spectacular growth and poverty reduction. However, China's institutions look ill-suited to achieve such a result, and they indeed suffer from serious shortcomings. To solve the "China puzzle," this paper analyzes China's institution—a regionally...

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The determinants of international commercial real estate investments

Lieser, Karsten; Groh, Alexander P. - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2011

We examine the determinants of commercial real estate investments using a unique set of panel data series for 47 countries worldwide, ranging from 2000 to 2009. We explore how different socio-economic, demographic and institutional characteristics affect commercial real estate investment...

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