Wage growth is stronger in larger cities, but this relationship holds exclusively for non-manual workers. Using rich German administrative data, I study the heterogeneity in the pecuniary value of big city experience, a measure of dynamic agglomeration economies, and its consequences for the...

La France et l’Allemagne sont toutes deux confrontées à une forte pression pour évoluer et s’adapter à de nouvelles formes d’urbanité et pour concevoir d’autres approches stratégiques dans un contexte de finances publiques limitées et de nécessité de performance économique. Ces...

In this paper we use data on Spanish cities between 2006 and 2015 to study the Spanish urban system applying the model in Desmet and Rossi-Hansberg (2013). We decompose the determinants of the Spanish city size distribution into three main components: efficiency, amenities, and frictions. In the...

To boost sustainable regional economic development, China has introduced urban agglomerations enlargement policy in recent years. Based on the panel data of 250 prefecture-level cities in China from 2002 to 2015, we first use Synthetic Control Methods to study the impact and possible mechanism...

COVID-19 significantly has changed the lifestyle in the urban areas. Urban parks reemerged as a savior of leisure activities and social joints under strict social-distancing measures. Physical activities such as strolling and jogging have relatively increased to avoid contact with others in...

Using data for 134 locations in New Zealand, we study the effects of crime and agglomeration on urban amenity. We find that crime has significant negative effects on the value of urban amenity, with elasticities of approximately −0.06 for firms and −0.09 for workers. To put this effect in...

This paper aims at examining interpersonal income and consumption inequality within the Attica Metropolitan Region, which includes Athens, the largest metropolis of Greece. It also aims to make comparisons between Attica and the rest of the country. The analysis is based on income and...

The central density, density gradient, and goodness-of-fit for the negative exponential model are estimated using housing unit densities for census tracts for 40 large urban areas from 1970 to 2020. Nonlinear regression is used to estimate the model parameters. The values of the estimates in...

Are Chinese cities too agglomerated, and are production factors continuing to flow to cities? Based on the panel data of 31 provinces and cities from 2006 to 2019，it is generally believed that urbanization has a positive role in promoting economic growth. This paper adds economic agglomeration...

For China's urban industrial layout and green innovation, determining which types of producer service agglomeration externalities (PSAE) are most conducive to the rise of green innovation efficiency (GIE) has theoretical and practical relevance. Based on the panel data of 274 prefecture-level...

In this paper we use data on Spanish cities between 2006 and 2015 to study the Spanish urban system applying the model in Desmet and Rossi-Hansberg (2013). We decompose the determinants of the Spanish city size distribution into three main components: efficiency, amenities, and frictions. In the...

To examine housing unit density in the older and newer portions of large urban areas, the urban core is identified as the territory included in the urban area in 1940, with areas added subsequently designated the suburban periphery. And since urban sprawl is frequently associated with...

The Washington, DC, metropolitan area, encompassing parts of DC, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV), receives immigrants from all over the world, especially Central America. This includes minors who face unique struggles before, during, and after their migration journeys. In this paper, we utilize...

This urbanization review "Connecting the Greater Metropolitan Area of Costa Rica" focuses on the South Corridor, a lagging (sub)region within Costa Rica's Greater Metropolitan Area (Gran Area Metropolitana, GAM), and the challenges facing the subregion as a result of rapid and unplanned...

Sierra Leone is highly vulnerable to natural hazards whose impacts are exacerbated by unplanned rapid urbanization. The main victims of climate change risks and impacts in urban Sierra Leone are the urban poor who also bear the brunt of multiple crises such as Ebola and Coronavirus Disease...

Housing unit densities are examined in 56 large urban areas in the United States defined in a consistent manner from 1950 to 2020. The mean density declined slightly over this period but this masks tremendous variation across the urban areas. Some of the most dense urban areas at the start...

This paper examines the effects of floods on urban development dynamics using geolocalized data on the universe of buildings in Spain from 1996 to 2021. We provide empirical evidence that floods foster local urban development and yield taller, more compact urban layouts, attracting populations,...

Urbanization and the increasing frequency of extreme climate events have required cities around the world to improve their flood resilience. In this study, we present a spatiotemporal flood simulation–urban model that integrates refined and multi-temporal scales and includes multi-scale radar...

In the early 1990s, Anthony Fielding coined the term ‘escalator region’ to describe how London and the South East attracted those with greater human capital by offering them superior career prospects and enhanced returns in the housing markets. When delineating a housing or labour market...

As a kind of tourism activity mode integrating sports and modern leisure tourism, the competitiveness level of sports tourism has become one of the important indexes to measure the strength of its market competitiveness and the development level of local tourism industry. This paper uses entropy...

This paper explores the connection between skilled foreign labor, urban agglomeration, and value creation through the lens of H-1B visa applications. We find that the spatial distribution of H-1B visas, which are awarded to highly skilled foreign-born workers, is heavily concentrated in a few...

For several decades, theorists and researchers have emphasized investigating and analyzing the likelihood of contagion of turbulence among markets. The behavior of the housing market is also essential because of the impact of housing prices on the loan portfolios of banks and other financial...

Based on a dynamic panel data model, this paper estimates the impact of lockdown policies on inflation with metropolitan-level data in the US. After controlling for the unit/time fixed effects and a number of aggregate demand/supply shifters, lockdown policies created a mild inflationary effect...

Purpose This paper aims to test three hypotheses in city growth literature documenting the poverty reduction observed in Brazil and exploring a rich spatial dataset for 5,564 Brazilian cities observed between 1991 and 2010. The large sample and the author's improved econometric methods allows...

In the last decades the global tourist industry has been transformed by rapid growth, resulting in many destinations reaching a state of touristification. This phenomenon is a socioeconomic and spatial transformation process that can contribute to the creation of a tourism monoculture. This...

The increasing occurrence of floods due to global climate change poses challenges to the growth of urban resilience. However, research on how to avoid flood risks in the process of long-term and detailed land use development is limited. To address this issue, this paper proposes a method that...

This paper assesses the network robustness of the technological capability base of 269 European metropolitan areas against the potential elimination of some of their capabilities. By doing so it provides systematic evidence on how network robustness conditioned the economic resilience of these...

In this work, we present a gridded dataset about land cover, population density, real estate, and transportation in 192 worldwide urban areas representing together 800 million people. While population density and land cover are secondary data extracted from the GHS-POP and the ESA CCI databases...

In this paper, I assume the existence of distribution of urbanamenities having its maximum at the city center. These amenities are viewed as a surrogate for all kinds of outside opportunities taht consumers encounter within urban areas. Using the Hotelling model, I study the impact of these...

This paper provides the first delineation of China’s commuting-based metropolitan areas (MAs) using a new source of commuting flow data at fine geographic levels. We show that commutes in China are overwhelmingly short and largely confined by administrative boundaries. Consequently,...

Using census data, Costa and Kahn (QJE, 2000) find that power couples - couples in which both spouses have college degrees - are increasingly likely to be located in the largest metropolitan areas. One explanation for this trend is that college educated couples are more likely to face a...