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Employment Growth and Income Inequality: Accounting for Spatial and Sectoral Differences
Pede, Valerien O.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Partridge, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009
This paper revisits the inequality-growth relationship accounting for sectoral differences and focusing on US counties … depends on regional income inequality and a number of control variables. Spatial econometrics techniques are used to account … inequality for the Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting sector and the Real Estate, Rental and Leasing sector. However …
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Local Employment Growth, Migration, and Public Land Policy: Evidence from the Northwest Forest Plan
Eichman, Henry; Hunt, Gary L.; Kerkvliet, Joe; … - In: Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 35 (2010) 2
Debates over protecting public land reveal two views. Some argue protection reduces commodity production, reducing local employment and increasing out-migration. Others contend protection produces amenities that support job growth and attract migrants. We test these competing views for the...
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Rural Employment At A Glance
Kusmin, Lorin D.; Parker, Timothy S. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2006
Rural Employment At A Glance is a six-page brochure that highlights the most recent indicators of employment and unemployment in rural areas. It documents changes and differences in metro and nonmetro employment growth, unemployment, earnings per job, and occupational mix, as well as differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519036
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Concentration and Specialisation Trends in Germany since Reunification
Suedekum, Jens - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004
In this paper we describe the development of regional specialisation and geographical concentration in Germany between 1993 and 2001. Somewhat contrary to theoretical expectations derived from the recent literature in location theory, we neither find compelling evidence for a specialisation...
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Agglomeration Economies in Ukrainian Dairy Sector: a Marked Point Process Approach
Brummer, Bernhard; von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
Even after more than 15 years of transition from plan to market, agriculture in Ukraine still faces many challenges in terms of its structure. The evidence in the literature points to significant heterogeneity of technical efficiency and productivity scores in Ukraine. Moreover, both the...
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EXPERT OPINION VERSUS TRANSACTION EVIDENCE: USING THE REILLY INDEX TO MEASURE OPEN SPACE PREMIUMS IN THE URBAN-RURAL FRINGE
Cotteleer, Geerte; Stobbe, Tracy; Kooten, G. Cornelis van - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
Due to economic and population growth farmland and to a lesser extend other undeveloped areas are under pressure in the urban-rural fringe in British Columbia, Canada. The objectives of this paper are to determine if residential property values near Victoria, BC include open-space premiums for...
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Land Use Change: A Spatial Multinomial Choice Analysis
Carrion-Flores, Carmen E.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009
Urban decentralization and dispersion trends have led to increased conversion of rural lands in many urban peripheries and exurban regions of the U.S. The growth of the exurban areas has outpaced growth in urban and suburban areas, resulting in growth pressures at the urban-rural fringe. A...
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Regional Convergence in the European Union (1985-1999): A Spatial Dynamic Panel Analysis
Badinger, Harald; Muller, Werner G.; Tondl, Gabriele - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002
We estimate the speed of income convergence for a sample of 196 European NUTS 2 regions over the period 1985-1999. So far there is no direct estimator available for dynamic panels with strong spatial dependencies. We propose a two-step procedure, which involves first spatial filtering of the...
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Millionaires or job creators : what really happens to employment growth when you stick it to the rich?
Houndonougbo, Ahiteme N.; Murray, Matthew Neal - In: Public finance review : PFR 47 (2019) 1, pp. 112-141
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Economic growth, convergence and spatial economic concentration in the states of Mexico 1970-2008
Asuad Sanén, Asuad Sanén , Normand; Quintana Romero, Luis - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2010) 18, pp. 83-106
The main intention of the present work is to identify the clubs formation of the economic convergence and divergence, which the economic growth has caused in the states of Mexico and the role and importance of the geo-spatial factors on this formation. This study was done by a comparative...
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