This paper uses empirical evidence from the Balkan peninsula during the 1981—2001 period, in order to study the dynamic patterns of a conflict-affected city-size distribution. By examining the time variations of the Pareto exponent on the one hand and by exploring cities’ relative...

An important literature has developed on the economic growth of small insular economies. In France, this literature mainly concerns its overseas? departments and territories in order to determine their long-term competitiveness and growth mechanisms. This paper aims to propose a critical...

The aim of this paper is to present some recent theoretical developments on urban growth. Within this literature, the main issue is the nature of the relation between urban growth and urban size. The later reveals some economic features of cities such as positive and negative externalities or...

The aim of this article is to analyze the patterns of the Chinese urban growth from 1984 to 2004, a period of important economic, social and institutional changes within this country. This article follows a two-sequenced methodological path. First, it applies Ioannides et Overman's seminal work...

S<sc>chaffar</sc> A. and D<sc>imou</sc> M. Rank-size city dynamics in China and India, 1981--2004, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. By using empirical evidence based on data from India and China between 1981 and 2004, this paper studies the dynamic patterns of urban hierarchies within the two most populated countries in the...

The main objective of this paper is to understand the effects of regional migration of households over city-size distribution, urban growth and real estate prices. The paper aims to study regional migration of elderly households, mainly those over 50, in France during the last 20 years, by...

Economic geography and the new urban theories create an original analytical framework in spatial economics in order to study location issues within an environment of increasing returns and imperfect competition. Two research topics are related : the first one wonders when a symmetric...

The marshallian approach of industrial organization is considered by many economists as the beginning of a huge literature that focuses, today, on the renewal of regional economics within the world. This paper aims to follow Professor?s BECATTINI pioneer work on MARSHALL writings. The later must...

The aim of this paper is to study the impact of local amenities on urban wages in Greece. It breaks through the previous recent dichotomous approaches on urban wage premium, according to which, salary differentials are due either to productivity effects or to the heterogeneity of the labor...

J.-E. Cairnes developed an original analysis of the segmentation of the labour market within the first part of its Principles of political economy, newly expounded. This analysis is based upon the concept of a non-competing group which can be defined as a group whose members, by their education...