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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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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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China’s Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the possible consequences of relaxing these restrictions for China’s internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography (NEG) model. First, we estimate the important model...
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China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on...
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This paper investigates to what extent the different subsectors of the knowledge economy are subject to sector-specific spatial patterns of employment dynamics, and whether these patterns are conditional upon the general economic climate in a particular region. To this end, we analyze and...
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China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135264
Development of an improved definition of the characteristics of business growth and change is an important need for the wide audience that is interested in economic development. This study devotes attention to the intersection of two areas of research interest: the development of firms, and the...
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Given that India's urban areas contribute to nearly two-thirds of its gross domestic product, even though they account … for only 31% of the country's population, they have been rightly called the engines of India's growth. In this paper, I … competitiveness of India's cities. This paper uses standard Census of India data at the level of the city, to compute location …
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estimate economic activity at the sub-regional level in the U.S., India and China. The night lights based estimates of economic …
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between households in different income brackets at the district level for India, and the radiance-calibrated nighttime image … different income brackets, made by Indicus Analytics (specialized economic research firm, based in New Delhi, India) were used …-deficient countries such as India …
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