Chen A. and Partridge M. D. When are cities engines of growth in China? Spread and backwash effects across the urban hierarchy, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. China's remarkable growth has an urban bias, but it is unclear whether it has greatly disadvantaged particular regions. To assess this question, a...

Groenewold N., Chen A. and Lee G. Inter-regional spillovers of policy shocks in China, Regional Studies. Inter-regional output spillovers from policy shocks are analysed in a three-region vector-autoregressive (VAR)-based model of China using investment as the policy variable. The...

PARTRIDGE M. D. and RICKMAN D. S. (1997) The dispersion of US state unemployment rates: the role of market and nonmarket equilibrium factors, Reg. Studies 31, 593-607. European nations, particularly the UK, have been observed to have persistent dispersion in regional unemployment rates. The...

Ali K., Olfert M. R. and Partridge M. D. Urban footprints in rural Canada: employment spillovers by city size, Regional Studies. Growing rural-to-urban commuting epitomizes a de facto regionalization process that is unique for each urban area and its spatial setting. In evaluating these...

PARTRIDGE M. D. and PARTRIDGE J. S. (1999) Do minimum wage hikes raise US long term unemployment? Evidence using state minimum wage rates, Reg. Studies 33 , 713-726. Several recent studies have challenged the conventional notion that raising the minimum wage reduces employment. This study...

Partridge M. D. and Rickman D. S. Computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling for regional economic development analysis, Regional Studies. Despite their long-standing use in economic policy analysis generally, and increasing popularity in regional policy analysis, computable general...