27 Result(s)
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Industrial variety, interregional industrial linkages, and regional resilience: evidence from China
This paper discusses the relationship between regional resilience and industrial variety from an evolutionary perspective. Using a panel dataset containing information on 285 cities at prefectural and higher l...
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How manufacturing and service industries affect regional inequality? Evidence from China
By integrating the literature on urban specialization and externalities, this paper proposes that the industrial sector is likely to reduce regional inequality between core cities and surrounding small and med...
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Shock absorber and shock diffuser: the multiple roles of industrial diversity in sha** regional economic resilience after the Great Recession
Given that little attention has been paid to the multiple and even conflicting roles of related variety and unrelated variety in sha** regional economic resilience, this study develops a framework that incor...
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How does real estate market react to the iron ore boom in Australian capital cities?
This study concentrates on the dynamic response of housing markets to the changes in iron ore price by using the quantile-on-quantile regression method. Because iron ore production is highly geographically con...
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Does social capital influence small business entrepreneurship? Differences between urban and rural China
This study investigates the relationship between social capital and small business entrepreneurship in China. Unlike previous studies that focus solely on rural or urban residents, this paper pays more attenti...
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Rural–urban migrants’ remittance and agricultural pollution in the presence of agricultural dualism
This paper established an open general equilibrium model to study the effect of the change of rural–urban migrants’ remittances rate on agricultural pollution. We found that the increase of migrants’ remittanc...
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Air pollution and perception-based averting behaviour in the **chuan mining area, China
This paper presents a simultaneous equation, knowledge and perception-based averting behavior model of health risk caused by air pollution, with application to the **chuan mining area, China. Three types of a...
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Regional poverty and infection disease: early exploratory evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic
This paper examines the role of regional poverty on the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA. It also explores how the effects differ with the concentration of ethnic minorities. We find that poverty is a significant ...
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Capital market distortion, agricultural producer service and wage inequality in the small-scale agriculture
Agriculture in develo** countries operates on small-scale plots in general, which makes the direct utilization of durable capital equipment difficult. An intermediate sector is needed to facilitate the usage...
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Mixed duopoly under hotelling with convex production costs
Dragone and Lambertini (Reg Sci Urban Econ 84:103568, 2020) show that in a Hotelling duopoly with linear transport cost, sufficiently convex production cost generates an elevated price equilibrium with colloca...
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How does big-box retail entry affect labor productivity in durable goods retailing? A synthetic control approach
Using data from 2001 to 2012, the effects of IKEA entry in four Swedish municipalities, 2004–2007, on labor productivity in durable goods retailing is investigated using synthetic control methods. We contribut...
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Frictional unemployment, bargaining, and agglomeration
This paper examines how matching elasticity and labor bargaining power affect industrial agglomeration in an open economy with frictional labor markets. The analysis is based on a footloose capital model of tw...
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International factor mobility and environment in a dual agricultural economy
The purpose of this study is to investigate the influences that international factor movements have on the environment in develo** country under agricultural dualism. By using a general equilibrium model tha...
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Intercity migration behavior of Chinese graduates: from home region to work destination
This paper describes an investigation that used data from a census of Chinese graduates to understand the decisions made by graduates migrating from their home region to their first jobs after graduation. Empl...
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Industrial structure and urban agglomeration: evidence from Chinese cities
This paper investigates whether and how regional industrial structure/concentration influences firm productivity. Based on the firm-level data from China, the paper estimates firm productivity with regional st...
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Logistics agglomeration and logistics productivity in the USA
Logistics agglomeration refers to the geographical concentration of logistics companies and activities. The growing trend of logistics agglomeration in the USA has drawn significant attention from both researc...
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How immigration reduced volunteering in the USA: 2005–2011
In this study, we show that an inflow of immigrants reduces volunteering, a proxy of social capital investment, in receiving communities. Since the 1960s, there has been a large decrease in social capital in t...
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One country, two “urban” systems: focusing on bimodality in China’s city-size distribution
In this study, we demonstrate the existence of bimodality in China’s city-size distribution and develop an urban-growth forecast model that incorporates this bimodality. Main data for our analysis are ...
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Lose to win: entrepreneurship of returned migrants in China
This paper explores the relationship between rural to urban migration and entrepreneurship in China. We compare entrepreneurship between return migrants who used to work in a province other than their home pro...
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Linkage between geographic space and knowledge transfer by multinational enterprises: a structural equation approach
This paper discusses the current links between international business, economic geography and knowledge management. Despite the recent proliferation of papers dealing with knowledge transfer by multinational e...
