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Frontiers in Physics, 2022 City population size is a crucial measure when trying to understand urban life. Many socio-economic indicators scale superlinearly with city size, whilst some infrastructure indicators scale sublinearly with city size.
Rafael Prieto Curiel +3 more
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Land, 2023 Few studies have analyzed the mixed effects of city size and land factors at the macro level on migrant socio-economic integration. On the basis of survey data on migrants in the Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region (PRDMR), this study developed a ...
Xuanyu Liu +6 more
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Early pandemic COVID-19 case growth rates increase with city size [PDF]
npj Urban Sustainability, 2020 The current outbreak of COVID-19 poses an unprecedented global health and economic threat to interconnected human societies. Strategies for controlling the outbreak rely on social distancing and face covering measures which largely disconnect the social ...
A. Stier, M. Berman, L. Bettencourt
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History and the Sizes of Cities [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 We contrast evidence of urban path dependence with efforts to analyze calibrated models of city sizes. Recent evidence of persistent city sizes following the obsolescence of historical advantages suggests that path dependence cannot be understood as the medium-run effect of legacy capital but instead as the long-run effect of equilibrium selection. In
Hoyt Bleakley, Jeffrey Lin
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Distribution of Cities in Federal Districts of Russia: Testing of the Zipf Law [PDF]
Экономика региона, 2019 At the modern stage of globalization pressures, imbalance in the distribution of cities in territorial space poses a threat to Russia’s economic development and social stability, which actualizes economic research on this issue.
Inna Vladimirovna Manaeva
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Understanding the City Size Wage Gap. [PDF]
Rev Econ Stud, 2012 In this paper, we decompose city size wage premia into various components. We base these decompositions on an estimated on-the-job search model that incorporates latent ability, search frictions, firm-worker match quality, human capital accumulation and endogenous migration between large, medium and small cities. Counterfactual simulations of the model
Baum-Snow N, Pavan R.
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Economic Transition and the Evolution of City-Size Distribution of China’s Urban System
, 2021 The evolution of city size distribution in China has gained a great deal of scholarly attention. However, little is known about the effect of economic transition on the reorganization of city size distribution in China.
Jiejing Wang, Yanguang Chen
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Zipf’s Law for Russian Cities: Analysis of New Indicators [PDF]
Экономика региона, 2020 At the present stage, urban economists widely use Zipf ’s law to assess the urban regional and national systems. Zipf ’s law or the rank–size rule is a pattern linking the population of a city with its place in the hierarchy of cities arranged in ...
Svetlana N. Rastvortseva +1 more
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Redai dili, 2021 A highly educated workforce is an important driving factor for urban innovation and development. A better understanding of spatial patterns and location determinants of highly educated workers is valuable for designing policies to attract them.
Zhang Yanru +3 more
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Celestina: Documento bibliográfico (suplemento número 41)
Celestinesca, 2019 N ...
Amaranta Saguar García, Devid Paolini
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