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Are Cities the New Growth Escalator?
Moretti, Enrico - 2017
Urban areas tend to have much more productive labor and higher salaries than rural areas, and there are vast differences across urban areas. Areas with high salaries and high productivity tend to have employers that invest in much more research and development than areas with low salaries and...
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Growing Through Cities in Developing Countries
Duranton, Gilles - 2017
This paper examines the effects of urbanization on development and growth. It begins with a labor market perspective …
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Farther on Down the Road : Transport Costs, Trade and Urban Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Storeygard, Adam - 2017
Transport costs are widely considered an important barrier to local economic activity but their impact in developing countries is not well-studied. This paper investigates the role of inter-city transport costs in determining the income of Sub-Saharan African cities, using two new data sources....
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Leveraging Land to Enable Urban Transformation : Lessons from Global Experience
Lozano-Gracia, Nancy - 2017
Around the world, in both developed and developing countries, policy makers use a variety of tools to manage and accommodate urban growth and redevelopment. Government officials have three main concerns in terms of land policy: (i) accommodating urban expansion, (ii) providing infrastructure,...
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Analyzing Urban Systems : Have Megacities Become Too Large?
Desmet, Klaus - 2017
The trend toward ever greater urbanization continues unabated across the globe. According to the United Nations, by … benchmark case of the United States. The fourth section does the same for China and Mexico and compares the findings. And the …
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Demography, Urbanization and Development : Rural Push, Urban Pull and... Urban Push?
Jedwab, Remi - 2017
Developing countries have urbanized rapidly since 1950. To explain urbanization, standard models emphasize rural … developing countries? rapid urban growth and urbanization may also be linked to demographic factors, such as rapid internal urban … and displays strong associations with urban congestion, providing additional insight into the phenomenon of urbanization …
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Agglomeration, Urbanization and Employment Growth in Ghana : Evidence from an Industry-District Panel
Kerr, Andrew - 2019
In this paper the impact of various agglomerative forces on employment growth in Ghanaian manufacturing is investigated, using data from two firm censuses, as well as population census and trade data. The study is the first to use nationally representative firm data that covers the formal and...
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Cities of Workers, Children, or Seniors? Age Structure and Economic Growth in a Global Cross-Section of Cities
Jedwab, Remi Camille - 2019
A large literature documents the positive influence of a city's skill structure on its rate of economic growth. By contrast, the effect of a city's age structure on its economic growth has been a hitherto largely neglected area of research. This paper hypothesizes that cities with more...
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Institutional Fragmentation and Metropolitan Coordination in Latin American Cities : What Consequences for Productivity and Growth?
Duque, Juan C. - 2019
This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact of institutional fragmentation and metropolitan coordination on urban productivity in Latin American cities. The use of night-time lights satellite imagery and high-resolution population data allow the use of a broader definition of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895213
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Selection, Firm Turnover, and Productivity Growth : Do Emerging Cities Speed Up the Process?
Jones, Patricia - 2018
This paper identifies and estimates the impact of firm entry and exit on plant-level productivity in Ethiopia as part of a selection mechanism that might be driving aggregate productivity growth in cities. Specifically, the paper investigates how firms' entry and exit contribute to the pace of...
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