The world is becoming more and more urbanized at every income level, and there has been a dramatic increase in the number of mega-cities in the developing world. This has led scholars to believe that development and urbanization are not always correlated, either across space or over time. In...

We present hedonic general-equilibrium estimates of quality-of-life and productivity differences across Canada's metropolitan areas. These are based off of the estimated willingness-to-pay of heterogeneous households and firms to locate in various cities, which differ in their wage levels,...

Does trade within a country affect welfare and productivity? What are the magnitude and consequences of costs to such trade? To answer these questions, we exploit unique Canadian data to measure internal trade costs in a variety of ways – they are large, and vary across sectors and...

Growth and jobs are top concerns for policy makers confronting difficult economic conditions in many OECD countries. Sub-national governments are important contributors to national growth, but in many cases their economies are struggling as well. Faced with tight fiscal conditions, all levels of...

This paper presents recent work undertaken at the OECD to produce environmental indicators at the regional level from geographic data sources. New indicators have been tested and produced in five different domains: a) land cover, b) forest ecosystems, c) urban density, d) CO2 emissions, e) air...

Statistical research by spot checks is used with great results in almost all economic and social research on a random basis. The social field and especially the living standard and the life quality scope, due to their complexity, sometimes require as the sole alternative to study phenomena –...

The system of macroeconomic indicators development has been imperative in order to meet the requirements of the characterization and business social - economic analysis at various organizational levels and for the whole national economy. Targeting the mass phenomena characterization, statistics...

Este artículo explica que la comarca natural del Bajo Deba constituye un espacio socio-económico integrado que ha padecido un fuerte proceso de desestructuración económica, cuyas consecuencias más visibles son la pérdida de empleo industrial, la caída de la población, y el elevado grado...

El aprovechamiento del medio rural para llevar acabo actividades turísticas no es algo nuevo en España. Sin embargo, no es hasta mediados de los 80 cuando el turismo rural empieza a tener un desarrollo mayor, apreciándose un crecimiento de la oferta, a medida que lo hacía la demanda. Este...

This article tackles one central issue in the regional science literature: the persistence of regional disparities in unemployment within national economies. Our approach is original as Okun's coefficients are estimated for each of the 22 administrative French regions over the period...