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Market Potential, Road Accessibility, and Firm Births: Evidence From 20 Years of Road Investment
Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the causal effects of road accessibility, measured by market potential, on firm births in Portuguese municipalities between 1991 and 2016, a period marked by significant road improvements. We address the endogeneity of market potential by employing instrumental variables within Poisson Pseudo‐maximum Likelihood ...
Mauricio S. de Carvalho +4 more
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Urbanisation Patterns: European vs Less Developed Countries [PDF]
We develop a model in which the interaction between transport costs, increasing returns, and labour migration across sectors and regions creates a tendency for urban agglomeration. Demand from rural areas favours urban dispersion.
Diego Puga
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Air Pollution Makes Public Health Problem in Urban Agglomeration Environment in Poland
, 2012 Katarzyna Sygit +5 more
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Monitoring Spatial Patterns and Changes of Ecology, Production, and Living Land in Chinese Urban Agglomerations: 35 Years after Reform and Opening Up, Where, How and Why? [PDF]
, 2017 Shisong Cao +4 more
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Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The new environmental and geopolitical situation has led to the need for a change in the current energy model. The infrastructures associated with renewable energies may represent an opportunity for economic growth, employment generation, and population recovery in rural territories.
Álvaro García‐Riazuelo +2 more
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The Effect of Agglomeration Size on Local Taxes [PDF]
Standard tax competition models predict a ‘race-to-the-bottom’ of corporate tax rates when firms are mobile. Recent theoretical literature has qualified this view by offering a theoretical explanation why this extreme prediction need not occur: central ...
Eva Luthi, Kurt Schmidheiny
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Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We employ sequence analysis to explore the heterogenous labor market paths of entrepreneurial Iraqi immigrants in Sweden, a group of forced migrants whom we follow from their year of immigration (2006–2009) to 2019. Using both individual and geographic characteristics, our main objective is to analyze how neighborhood characteristics are ...
Sofia Wixe, Johan Klaesson
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It’s All in Marshall: The Impact of External Economies on Regional Dynamics [PDF]
Marshall's student Pigou noted: “It’s all in Marshall.” From a static point of view, this seems rather bold in a constantly changing world. However, this statement becomes more plausible in a dynamic context, where principles are subject to change ...
David B. Audretsch +2 more
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The Association Between Urbanisation and Household Food Security in Nigeria
Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.This paper focuses on the nexus between urbanisation and household food security in the context of Nigeria. The study uses night‐time light intensity as a proxy for urbanisation to capture the variation in urbanisation to estimate its relationship to household food security.
Joseph B. Ajefu +2 more
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Agglomeration and the Adjustment of the Spatial Economy [PDF]
We consider the literatures on urban systems and New Economic Geography to examine questions concerning agglomeration and how areas respond to shocks to the economic environment. We first propose a diagrammatic framework to compare the two approaches. We
Gilles Duranton +2 more
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