Previous studies in regional science show that the size of a city has a scaling effect on many variables such as population, economic growth and number of creative employees. This type of relation can also be observed between the size of the networks that emerge between individuals and the...

The importance of the retail sector for an economy is multifaceted. It is a complex and vital sector both in developed and in emerging economies, where a vast amount of production as well as employment opportunities are present. One of the most notable characteristics of the retail sector is...

This paper investigates the impact of market accessibility on productivity, where market potential is calculated in terms of the time-distances between market places of different aggregation levels, and wage sums in the respective markets. In particular, the empirical analysis explores the...

The south-western part of the county of Jonkoping in Sweden has an industrial structure that is very different from that in the rest of Sweden. The region which may be characterised as an ?industrial district?, is dominated by small and medium-sized enterprises. It is well-known for its...

Established analysis of labour market commuting are based on random choice models and gravity type models. In these models generalised transport costs are formulated as exponential or loglinear distance-dependent functions. This paper presents empirical observations that imply that...

This paper introduces a model which identifies the economic activity of each local economy (location) and observes the time distance between each pair of locations as well as the average time distance between sub locations in each local economy. We focus on three categories of firms: (i)...

In this article I analyze the export behavior of firms located in different Central European countries (Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia) with respect to migration. Ever since the seminal article by Gould (1994) on immigrant links to their home country and due to empirical research...