[PDF] Three Essays In Regional Economics That Consider The Importance Of Space Agglomeration And Income eBook

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 2011-02-08
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ISBN : 9264097074

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This report collects papers presented at the OECD Workshop on Disaggregated Impacts of CAP Reforms, held in Paris in 2010, which focused on recent reforms. In particular, it examined the implementation of the single payment scheme since 2005 and the transfer of funds between different measures.

Author : Nanxin Deng
Publisher :
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Agglomeration
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The third chapter explains the reasons for the decreasing migration flows in the United States. Migration has been viewed as critical for the flexibility of the U.S. labor market, but its role of smoothing out macroeconomic shocks has been falling in recent years (Partridge et al. 2012). This study investigates the reasons for decreasing migration flows and provides evidence for the link between dwindling migration and increasing industry mobility in the United States from 2005 to 2015. Linked to the labor search theory (Mortenson, 1986), this study illustrates how industry mobility substitute for migration flows. Empirical results suggest that industry mobility is inversely associated with out-migration rate. The role of migration for smoothing out demand shocks becomes less important in regions where industry mobility rates are high. The findings justify that the increasing industry mobility can explain the decreasing migration flows in the U.S.

Author : John Friedmann
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
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Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412827577

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John Friedmann is internationally known for his pathbreaking work in urban and regional development planning theory. Life Space and Economic Space contains some of his most original and controversial essays on spatial and territorial development in the low-income countries of the world. The essays focus on a conflict he considers fundamental to human existence: that conflict between life space and economic space. By "life space" Friedmann means the bounded territories over which we strive to exert some degree of self-governance and which constitute the human habitat. By "economic space" he means the ubiquitous global space of market relations. Friedman demonstrates the implications of his theoretical position in a number of ways: he examines development in Southeast Asia, introduces the notion of "world cities, " and presents a politico-territorial model of rural development which he calls agropolitan. The analysis extends in wide-ranging fashion from the space of global relations to the most intimate space of the household economy which, when linked to other households, constitutes the economy of the barrio or neighborhood. In a chapter proposing a dual-track model of development, he sketches a model of the barrio economy drawn from Latin American experience and based on social mobilization, collective self-empowerment and political action. Friedmann perceives a global crisis which he traces to the dissolution of territorial relations. This he believes results from penetration of the global system of markets into the remotest corners of the world, undermining traditional cultures and ways of life. The consequence is incipient breakdown, he asserts, and we need to repoliticize spaceand subordinate the power of capital to the collective will of people organized to work toward common ends. This deliberately provocative collection of essays includes an autobiographical fragment providing contextual information about the author.

Author : Milton Santos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 23,58 MB
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351594079

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Originally published in 1979. In this forcefully argued book, Milton Santos shows that contemporary explanations of urbanization and spatial organization in underdeveloped countries are inadequate. This failure is attributable to their origins in theories elaborated to explain the development of advanced Western societies. Santos' work provides the basis for the new theory which is so badly needed. He describes the urban economy in these countries in terms of two circuits of activity – an upper circuit consisting of those enterprises and structures which are based on modern technology and are oriented towards the advanced capitalist world, and a lower circuit comprised of more traditional processes and forms of exchange. The dialectical interaction of these two circuits is seen to generate the patterns of growth, forms of State intervention and, above all, the spatial organization characteristic of Third World economies. This was a revision and translation of L’Espace Partagé (1975).

Author : V. Henderson
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1081 pages
File Size : 10,93 MB
Release : 2004-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0080495125

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The new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics: Cities and Geography reviews, synthesizes and extends the key developments in urban and regional economics and their strong connection to other recent developments in modern economics. Of particular interest is the development of the new economic geography and its incorporation along with innovations in industrial organization, endogenous growth, network theory and applied econometrics into urban and regional economics. The chapters cover theoretical developments concerning the forces of agglomeration, the nature of neighborhoods and human capital externalities, the foundations of systems of cities, the development of local political institutions, regional agglomerations and regional growth. Such massive progress in understanding the theory behind urban and regional phenomenon is consistent with on-going progress in the field since the late 1960’s. What is unprecedented are the developments on the empirical side: the development of a wide body of knowledge concerning the nature of urban externalities, city size distributions, urban sprawl, urban and regional trade, and regional convergence, as well as a body of knowledge on specific regions of the world—Europe, Asia and North America, both current and historical. The Handbook is a key reference piece for anyone wishing to understand the developments in the field.

Author : Peter Nijkamp
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
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Published simultaneously with three other volumes containing thematically grouped essays by Nijkamp (economics, Free U., the Netherlands) and collaborators, this collection contains 19 papers the author considers to be "novel contributions to the spatial- economic analysis of innovation, entrepreneurship and urban and regional development." Originally appearing between 1989 and 2002, the essays examine the theoretical bases of spatial analysis of economic growth and innovation; include macro and regional studies, as well as micro sector- and firm-level studies; and explore applications related to urban and regional policy. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).