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Mind maps of employment development in Swedish sparse regions

Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 2011
Employment options are forming an essential part of living conditions for individuals and households. In this paper we present how people in Sweden perceive current and future job options. The empirical case is the northern half of the Swedish territory,
Ulf Wiberg, Tommy Lind
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Common indicators hurt armed conflict prediction [PDF]

arXiv
Are big conflicts different from small or medium size conflicts? To answer this question, we leverage fine-grained conflict data, which we map to climate, geography, infrastructure, economics, raw demographics, and demographic composition in Africa.
arxiv  

Some Notes on Institutions in Evolutionary Economic Geography [PDF]

Within the evolutionary economic geography framework the role of institutions deserves more explicit attention. We argue that territorial institutions are to be viewed as orthogonal to organisational routines in that each territory is characterised by a ...
Koen Frenken, Ron Boschma
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Does Economic Geography Matter for International Specialization? [PDF]

There are two principal theories of why countries trade: comparative advantage and increasing returns to scale. Yet there is no empirical work that assesses the relative importance of these two theories in accounting for production structure and trade ...
David E. Weinstein, Donald R. Davis
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Elementary Economic Geography [PDF]

, 1917
E. A. P., Charles Redway Dryer
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The Empirical Relevance of the New Economic Geography: Testing for a Spatial Wage Structure in Germany [PDF]

In this paper we want to shed some light on the empirical relevance of the new economic geography. Using one of the central features of the core new economic geography models, namely that wages have the tendency to fall the further one moves away from ...
Harry Garretsen, Marc Schramm, Steven Brakman   +2 more
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Application of Remote-Sensing Data in Geochemical Studies of Soils of the Yertis River Basin Within East Kazakhstan

Quaestiones Geographicae
This article presents the results of field research, as well as the results of the use of remote-sensing data in the geochemical study of the soil cover of the Yertis River basin.
Ulykpanova Meruyert M., Auezova Zaure, Ramazanova Nurgul, Mussabaeva Meruert, Zhanguzhina Altyn   +4 more
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Building strength for the long haul toward liberation: What psychology can contribute to the resilience of communities targeted by state‐sanctioned violence

American Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 3-4, Page 475-492, December 2022., 2022
Abstract State‐sanctioned violence (SSV) has resounding effects on entire populations, and marginalized communities have long persisted in the work toward liberation despite continued SSV. This paper aims to bridge the gap between the vast scholarship on resilience and the practical challenge of sustaining and thriving in communities targeted by SSV ...
Kris T. Gebhard, Stephanie Hargrove, Tahani Chaudhry, Syeda Y. Buchwach, Lauren B. Cattaneo   +4 more
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Economic Geography and Structural Change [PDF]

arXiv
As countries develop, the relative importance of agriculture declines and economic activity becomes spatially concentrated. We develop a model integrating structural change and regional disparities to jointly capture these phenomena. A key modeling innovation ensuring analytical tractability is the introduction of non-homothetic Cobb-Douglas ...
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Principles of Human Geography The Principles of Economic Geography [PDF]

, 1921
Geo. G. Chisholm
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