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A framework to study the role of structural transformation in productivity growth and regional convergence

Fukao, Kyōji; Paul, Saumik - 2018

We show that σ-convergence in regional productivity growth can be approximated by σ-convergence in sectoral productivity growth and σ-convergence in structural transformation-led productivity growth. Applying this framework to Japanese prefecture-level data from 1874 to 2008, we find support...

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Croissance de l'emploi régional en Suisse (1985-2001)

MAGER, Christophe - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine août (2006) 3, pp. 489-507

In this paper, we use a structural-geographical analysis to study the evolution of employment in 5 Swiss metropolitan … occurred in other metropolitan areas, employment increase was less than estimated by our model in almost all the branches of …. The relative weakness of the agglomeration effects on the employment in the Geneva-Lausanne area is to some extent related …

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Unemployment Rate Dispersion in Melbourne: The ‘Regional’ Dimension

Dixon, Robert; Mahmood, Muhammad - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 9 (2006) 3, pp. 269-286

In this paper we examine unemployment rate dispersion across the (statistical) regions in the Melbourne metropolitan area. We find that the level of dispersion is positively correlated with the unemployment rate in all the regions taken together and that the ‘elasticity’ of dispersion with...

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The evolution of the location of economic activity in Chile in the long run: A paradox of extreme concentration in absence of agglomeration economies

Badia-Miró, Marc - In: Estudios de Economía 42 (2015) 2, pp. 143-167

Chile is characterized as being a country with an extreme concentration of the economic activity around Santiago. In spite of this, and in contrast to what is found in many industrialized countries, income levels per inhabitant in the capital are below the country average and far from the levels...

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