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Using a novel dataset on regional GDP per worker 1860-2009, this paper analyzes communalities in regional long-term growth trajectories for 24 Swedish provinces. Wavelet Analysis and Principal Component Analysis are used to decompose regional growth trajectories, and to assess to what extent...
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This paper studies the sources of agglomeration economies in cities. We begin by introducing a simple dynamic spatial equilibrium model that incorporates spillovers within and across industries, as well as city-size effects. The model generates a dynamic panel-data estimation equation. We...
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A recent transition in the field of agrarian economics theory for rural development is the move from a narrow agricultural sector approach, to one which adopts broader territorial vision. This passage seeks to interpret interactions between urban and rural worlds in a more comprehensive...
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controlling for other factors, suggesting that there may be an "urbanization effect" that is dampening credit access and usage …
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urbanization are unsustainably high. Deep existing deficits in basic urban services such as housing, transit, water, sanitation and …
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We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in finance employment increases the annualized growth rate of secondary labour by 0.8 percentage points. An endogenous growth model with finance and...
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to shocks, the degree of urbanization and specialization. We take the Great Recession, the economic and financial crisis … period, we find that the degree and nature of regional urbanization and specialization are important drivers of the …
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I use German administrative data for 2001-2010 to analyse the impact of urbanization and firm characteristics on wage …
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In light of the United Nations' (UN) latest urbanization projections, par- ticularly with respect to India and the … People's Republic of China, a good understanding is needed of what drives aggregate urbanization trends. Yet, previous … Urbanization Prospects, we use an instrumental variables approach to identify and analyze key urbanization determinants. We …
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The Chinese government is actively promoting urbanization to stimulate its economic growth while facing increasingly … efforts to promote cleaner energy demand while pushing for urbanization. This study employs system GMM models to empirically … investigate the causal relationship between urbanization and natural gas demand by using a sample of 30 provinces in China over …
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