WTO, OECD with many others, suggest the trade in value-added would be a “better” measure to understand the impact of trade on employment, growth, production etc. when import content in exports is important. We use in this work an Input-Output table for 2008, to calculate the value-added...

This research begins with the following questions: Is there consistency between the identification of development and the economic structure it possesses?; Are there similarities between the economies identified with differences in their levels of development?; and, are there non- developed...

Availability of financial capital and location decisions are variables that influence regional manufacturing output. This study maintains that a region’s manufacturing growth depends upon the region’s firm-type dominance. That is, the type of firms that dominate the region’s manufacturing...

This paper proposes a new approach to regional economic development that attempts to bring together sector and place-based strategies through the use of thematics. By connecting new measures and existing diagnostics we demonstrate how a region may identify emerging industrial themes based on...

This analysis first of all shows with the latest empirical regional and other statistics of the OECD the true dimension of the Lisbon gap between Europe and the Western overseas democracies. The neo-liberal politicy consensus in Europe always assumed that the continuation of neo-liberal...

This paper analyses the determinants of growth of American cities, understood as growth of the population or per capita income, from 1990 to 2000. This empirical analysis uses data from all cities with no size restriction (our sample contains data for 21,655 cities). The results show that while...

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...

This paper seeks to advance understanding of the lights-income relationship by linking the newest generation of night-time satellite images, the VIIRS images, to nationwide, panel data on 3,101 US counties, including data on both population and income. I leverage the quality and frequency of...

This paper studies regional convergence and spatial dependence of homicides and personal injuries in Colombia. In particular, through the lens of both classical and distributional convergence frameworks, two spatial scales are contrasted: municipalities and states. For both homicides and...

The Maine economy experienced an 11-percent reduction in employment from February to July of 2020, with job losses of 18 percent from February to April and a 10-percent increase from April to July. Of the employment decline of 57,100 jobs from February to July, about 85 percent of the loss is...