Positive feedback processes, set in the context of all-industry location factors, provide the theoretical background to the statistical analysis of the shift-share residual component which is used to identify the localisation and delocalisation by county of high-technology manufacturing in Great...

The location of employment in high-technology manufacturing in Great Britain in 1984 is analysed using a series of spatial regression models. These show that the distribution of employment explains a large part of the high-technology manufacturing employment distribution, indicating that the...

The affordability of housing is a major policy issue that has increasingly become a concern for UK government as house prices have risen dramatically in recent years. This is partly because of the importance of affordability for the recruitment and retention of key workers, many of whom are on...

This paper provides new evidence that, controlling for other effects, the growth of employment in high-technology SMEs depends on the initial horizontal clustering. The paper focuses on employment change over the period 1991-2000 in computing services and research and development (R&D)...

The concept of industrial clusters has attracted much attention during the past decade, both as descriptive of an increasingly important phenomenon and as a basis for effective public intervention in the economies of lagging city-regions. However, there is much ambiguity in the way in which this...

Fundamental problems exist with the classical characterisation of agglomeration economies, since such definitions do not reflect the various cost issues on which firms may wish to economise. A lack of understanding of the relationship between the notions of market hierarchies and locational...

This paper contends that in many real-world situations, the frequency with which transactions take place is central to the relationship between land prices and location. It will therefore be argued that an approach which makes the transactions and journey frequency endogenous to the cost problem...

This paper reports on a model of the sequential migration behaviour of some 76 000 Scottish and Welsh students, from their domicile location to the location of their higher education and on to their employment location. A logit model methodology is employed to analyse the choice of the location...

Prior studies suggest that homeownership positively impacts on social capital formation. However, many studies find it difficult to control adequately for selection effects in the form of factors, some of which may be unobserved, that encourage both homeownership and investment in social capital...