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U.S. Regional Poverty Post-2000: The Lost Decade

Partridge, Mark; Rickman, Dan; Tan, Ying; Olfert, M. Rose - 2013

The strong U.S. real income gains and reductions in poverty during the 1990s were largely erased in the following decade, which contained two economic recessions and tepid job growth otherwise. Areas most affected by weak U.S. economic performance could be expected to also have experienced the...

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Concentración, convergencia y desigualdad regional en España

Goerlich, Francisco José; Mas, Matilde; Pérez, Francisco - 2002

El trabajo revisa la experiencia de crecimiento de las regiones españolas durante el periodo 1955-2000, ampliando los resultados ya conocidos en tres direcciones. En primer lugar, describe los perfiles de la localización de la actividad sobre el territorio, constatandoel freno a la...

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Defining and measuring polycentric regions: the case of Tuscany

Burgalassi, David - 2010

Polycentric development in regions has many dimensions, which involve several definitions and measures. This paper tackles the problem of defining and measuring polycentricity under an integrated and multi- dimensional perspective. Firstly, the policy relevance of polycentricity is analysed....

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The Great Recession and Nonmetropolitan America

Rickman, Dan S.; Guettabi, Mouhcine - 2013

The influence of the housing market bubble on U.S. business cycle dynamics during the previous decade has been well-documented. Yet, little if anything is known about how nonmetropolitan areas fared during the period. This study examines the association of regional housing market bubbles with...

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Whither the American West? Natural Amenities, Energy and Nonmetropolitan County Growth

Rickman, Dan S.; Wang, Hongbo - 2018

The American West has long experienced strong economic growth. The varied economy of the region though has produced a diversity of economic outcomes and trends. In this paper, we assess whether there have been significant relative shifts in economic growth across the nonmetropolitan counties of...

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Child’s relation with advertising: advertising as entertainment, as first consumption experience, as stimulus to influence parents’ opinion

Mackevičiūtė, Agnė - 2010

management after accomplishment of determination of the outcomes of the dialog between child and advertising. On purpose to … it is aimed to ascertain how child understands advertising, does it influences in any way the relation between child and … reveal why child, influenced through advertising, can influence the shopping habits of his family. Also it is intended to …

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Participatory development of a minimum dataset for the Khayelitsha district

Mash, B.; Mahomed, H. - 2000

Background. Traditional 'data-led' information systems have created excessive amounts of poor-quality and poorly utilised data. The Health Information Systems Pilot Project (HISPP), a Western Cape project that started in 1996, initiated a process in one of its three pilot sites to model an...

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Socio-economic mortality differentials in Sydney over a quarter of a century, 1970-94

Hayes, Lillian J.; Quine, Susan; Taylor, Richard; … - 2002

OBJECTIVE: To examine trends in socio-economic differentials in all-cause mortality in Sydney over a 25-year period (1970-94). METHODS: Five measures of single indicators (two for occupation, two for education and one for income) and a composite measure of socio-economic disadvantage based on...

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Reductions in Child Mortality Levels and Inequalities in Thailand: Analysis of Two Censuses

Vapattanawong, P.; Hogan, M. C.; Hanvoravongchai, P.; … - 2007

child mortality gap between the poorest and richest populations is unknown. We aimed to measure changes in child … substantially larger reductions in U5MR in the poorer segments of the population. Excess child mortality risk between the poorest …

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Dwindling U.S. Internal Migration: Evidence of Spatial Equilibrium?

Mark D., Partridge; Dan S., Rickman; M. Rose, Olfert; … - 2010

This paper examines whether the significant downward shift in U.S. gross migration rates after 2000 is indicative of the economy nearing a stationary spatial equilibrium. Nearness to spatial equilibrium would imply that site-specific factors such as amenities and location within the urban...

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