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Congestion and scheduling preferences of car commuters in California: estimates using big data J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Jinwon Kim, Jucheol Moon
This article estimates commuters’ scheduling utility function, which comprises the disutility of arriving at work earlier or later than desired (namely, the schedule-delay cost) and the disutility of travel time. The marginal rate of substitution (MRS) between the schedule delay and the travel time is about 0.85, meaning that commuters are willing to accept an extra schedule delay of about 1.2 time
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Quality of communications infrastructure, local structural transformation, and inequality J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Camilo Acosta, Luis Baldomero-Quintana
We estimate the causal impact of communication infrastructure quality on growth and structural transformation. We use variation across US counties’ Internet speeds in 2018 and build an instrument using ARPANET, a military network that preceded the modern Internet, with its location documented in historical government reports. We find that doubling Internet speeds increases the 4-year employment growth
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Rethinking resource enclavity in developing countries: Embedding Global Production Networks in gold mining regions J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Gavin Hilson, Yanfei Hu, Abigail Hilson, John R Owen, Éléonore Lèbre, Titus Sauerwein
This article explores how the gold mining sector has adapted and evolved in developing countries since the onset of the global pandemic. A major criticism of capital-intensive gold mines has been that they occur as enclaves which fail to catalyze local economic development. Pre-pandemic, the pressure applied by NGOs and donors on gold mining companies to ‘de-enclave’ was steadily building. It has since
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Austerity urbanism, local government debt-drive, and post COVID predicaments in Britain J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Hulya Dagdeviren
Conditions of local governance in the aftermath of the global financial crisis are often discussed as reflections of ‘austerity urbanism’. What forms of mutations have taken place in austerity urbanism after the initial years of spending cuts at the local level? This article investigates this question by focusing on the uneven geographies of post-austerity debt-drive in Britain. It is shown that austerity
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Large-scale affordable housing construction and public goods provision: evidence from Iran J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Saeed Tajrishy, Mohammad Vesal
Affordable housing projects may affect neighboring property values. Negative spillovers are more likely in developing countries because governments may fail to provide complementary infrastructures such as schools. We study one of the world’s largest affordable housing projects, the Mehr housing project in Iran, which facilitated the construction of 2 million affordable apartments. Using the universe
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R&D location in dynamic industry environments J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Luca Colombo, Herbert Dawid, Philipp Harting
We study firms’ optimal R&D location strategies in a dynamic industry model with competition in product quality. In light of potential future inwards and outwards spillovers firms make their location choices relying on heuristic strategies that are based on the expected present values associated with alternative location patterns. Using a simulation analysis, we show how the strategies of innovators
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The Zoom city: working from home, urban productivity and land use J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Efthymia Kyriakopoulou, Pierre M Picard
This article investigates the impact of working from home (WFH) on the emergence and structure of monocentric cities. In the long run, WFH raises urban productivity only in sufficiently large cities. Business land rents fall while residential land rents decrease near the business district. Workers have incentives to adopt inefficiently high WFH schemes. In the short run, WFH yields mixed benefits for
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The decentralization of public employment services and local governments’ responses to incentives J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Jeremias Nieminen, Ohto Kanninen, Hannu Karhunen
We examine how the decentralization of public employment services (PES) affects the behavior and service provision of PES offices and the labor market outcomes of job seekers. We use difference-in-differences, utilizing a Finnish temporary reform during which PES were decentralized for specific groups of job seekers in treated municipalities and remained centralized for others. The reform presented
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Is income inequality converging at the regional level? Evidence from LIS data J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Philipp Erfurth
Interest in regional convergence in mean incomes has been rekindled by findings that suggest a shift from convergence to divergence. While the majority of existing research has explored convergence in mean incomes, this research focuses specifically on the convergence/divergence of interpersonal income distributions across regions, referred to throughout the study as comparative inter-regional inter-personal
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Geopolitical decoupling and global production networks: the case of Ukrainian industries after the 2014 Crimean annexation J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Jiří Blažek, Anton Lypianin
This study investigates the decoupling of Ukrainian aerospace, defense and electro-engineering industries resulting from the Russian Crimean annexation in 2014. Conceptually, we contribute to global value chain/global production network research by developing the notion of geopolitical decoupling, thus augmenting the existing 2-fold typology. Moreover, the article elaborates a typology of recoupling
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Diversification, vertical integration and economic resilience: evidence from intercity truck flows during COVID-19 in China J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Da Fang, Yan Guo, Haochen Zhang
This article examines economic resilience by combining high-frequency truck flows and the lockdown policy shock during COVID-19 in China. We discover that the truck flows in regions with higher levels of diversification and vertical integration see a smaller decrease in response to the COVID-19 shock. Dynamically, such moderating effects of diversification and vertical integration get smaller with
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Capital shocks and the great urban divide J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Michiel N Daams, Philip McCann, Paolo Veneri, Richard Barkham, Dennis Schoenmaker
This article exploits signals of capital pricing and availability in US cities which are obtained from uniquely detailed data on real estate investments. We identify how places were differently affected by the global financial crisis and provide insights which offer an alternative explanation of why US economic growth continues to experience spatial divergence after many decades of convergence. Investment
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Frontier workers and the seedbeds of inequality and prosperity J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Dylan Shane Connor, Tom Kemeny, Michael Storper
This article examines the role of work at the cutting of technological change—frontier work—as a driver of prosperity and spatial income inequality. Using new methods and data, we analyze the geography and incomes of frontier workers from 1880 to 2019. Initially, frontier work is concentrated in a set of ‘seedbed’ locations, contributing to rising spatial inequality through powerful localized wage
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Populist resentments and identities and their repercussions on firms and regions. The example of East Thuringia J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Sebastian Henn, Matthias Hannemann
Right-wing populism and related geographies of discontent have become central subjects in the recent debate on regional inequalities. The present contribution seeks to complement existing, predominantly synoptic approaches by looking at specific economic practices of local actors. We argue that exclusionary regional political identities are transferred to firms and shape corporate practices. Using
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The great recession and the public sector in rural America J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Jonathan Rodden
Why did rural areas recover from the great recession much more slowly than metropolitan areas? Due to declining tax revenues and intergovernmental aid, employment in the American local government sector fell substantially after the great recession. Cuts to local public employment were especially large, long-lasting and consequential in rural areas, which have become relatively dependent on public-sector
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State de-financialisation through incorporating local government bonds in the budgetary process in China J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-07-09 Zhenfa Li, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
In China, state-led financialisation through local government financing platforms resulted in a surge in local government debt. To manage financial risk, the central state introduced local government bonds (LGBs) to replace the platforms as the main financing source for infrastructure investment. The issuance of LGBs is subject to a budgetary process. We argue that LGBs mark a turn to state de-financialisation
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Micromotives and macromoves: political preferences and internal migration in England and Wales J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Georgios Efthyvoulou, Vincenzo Bove, Harry Pickard
When people migrate internally, do they tend to move to locations that reflect their political preferences? To address this question, we combine evidence from a unique panel dataset on population movements across local authority districts in England and Wales (2002–2015) with evidence stemming from individual survey-based data. Our results suggest that political similarity between two districts exerts
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Local labour tasks and patenting in US commuting zones J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Marialuisa Divella, Alessia Lo Turco, Alessandro Sterlacchini
In this article, we adopt a task approach to measure the local pool of capabilities which can more effectively spur innovation. By focusing on the core activities that workers undertake in their jobs, we build an abstract task intensity measure of occupations to proxy the ability in analysing and solving complex problems, as well as in coordinating and integrating people with different knowledge endowments
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Quantifying land-use regulation and its determinants J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Simon Büchler, Maximilian v. Ehrlich
We analyze land-use regulation and the determinants thereof across Swiss municipalities. We construct several residential development stringency indices based on a comprehensive survey. These indices capture various aspects of local regulation and land-use coordination across jurisdictions. Combining these indices, we construct an index that provides harmonized information about what local regulation
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Geographies of dissociation: informality, ethical codes and fragmented labour regimes in the Sri Lankan apparel industry J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Shyamain Wickramasingha
In this article, I use the emerging concept of geographies of dissociation to examine fragmented labour regimes in global production networks (GPNs). The article takes informality in the Sri Lankan apparel industry and the application of ethical codes as a case example. Using qualitative research methods, I provide a critical analytical lens through which the concept of dissociation makes visible what
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How do financialised agri-corporate investors acquire farmland? Analysing land investment in an Australian agricultural region, 2004–2019 J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Bill Pritchard, Elen Welch, Guillermo Umana Restrepo, Lachlan Mitchell
This article uses a purpose-designed land parcels database covering all rural land transactions over 16 years (2004–2019 inclusive) to document the ways in which financialised agri-corporate investors acquired farmland in a major Australian cropping and grazing region, New England North West (NENW). Framing these investments through the lens of strategic coupling reveals a mix of land acquisition strategies
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Natural disasters, risk and migration: evidence from the 2017 Pohang earthquake in Korea J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Hyejin Kim, Jongkwan Lee
Using the 2017 Pohang earthquake in South Korea as a natural experiment, we examined the responses of the population. By constructing a counterfactual of Pohang using synthetic controls, we found that the earthquake significantly decreased the local population. To investigate the mechanisms of population decrease, we gathered administrative data on the universe of address changes and self-reported
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Boosting, sorting and complexity—urban scaling of innovation around the world J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Tom Broekel, Louis Knuepling, Lars Mewes
It is widely understood that innovations tend to be concentrated in cities, which is evidenced by innovative output increasing disproportionately with city size. Yet, given the heterogeneity of countries and technologies, few studies explore the relationship between population and innovation numbers. For instance, in the USA, innovative output scaling is substantial and is particularly pronounced for
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Left-behind versus unequal places: interpersonal inequality, economic decline and the rise of populism in the USA and Europe J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Javier Terrero-Dávila, Neil Lee
Economic change over the past 20 years has rendered many individuals and territories vulnerable, leading to greater interpersonal and interterritorial inequality. This rising inequality is seen as a root cause of populism. Yet, there is no comparative evidence as to whether this discontent is the consequence of localised interpersonal inequality or stagnant growth in ‘left-behind’ places. This article
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Value chain, regional institutions and firm growth in Europe J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Giulio Cainelli, Roberto Ganau, Anna Giunta
We analyse whether and to what extent the quality of regional institutions has a differential effect on firms’ growth driven by heterogeneity in firm value chain positioning. We analyse turnover growth during the period 2010–2013 for a sample of manufacturing firms located in four European countries—France, Germany, Italy and Spain. We distinguish final firms serving end markets from suppliers serving
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Not welcome anymore: the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Matteo Gamalerio, Margherita Negri
Do electoral incentives affect immigration policies? Exploiting the Italian system for refugees’ reception and data from Italian municipalities, we show that proximity to elections reduces the probability that a municipality applies to host a refugee center by 26%, despite the economic benefits arising from these centers. Low electoral competition and high shares of extreme-right voters drive the effect
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‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Matthias Niggli
Patent data provides rich information about technical inventions, but does not disclose the ethnic origin of inventors. In this article, I use supervised learning techniques to infer this information. To do so, I construct a dataset of 96′777 labeled names and train an artificial recurrent neural network with long short-term memory (LSTM) to predict ethnic origins based on names. The trained network
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Financial centre primacy around the world: international analysis based on mergers and acquisitions data J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Dariusz Wójcik, Liam Keenan, Vladimír Pažitka, Michael Urban, Wei Wu
We analyse mergers and acquisitions in the financial sector between 2000 and 2017 to explore the domestic hierarchies of financial centres. Across a sample of 16 countries, we reveal different levels of financial centre primacy and explain how these levels change over time. These findings are analysed through a theoretical framework which integrates the literatures on urban primacy, global and world
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Matching and sorting across regions J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Chiara Lacava
This article measures the effects of workers’ mobility across regions characterised by different productivity levels through the lens of a search and matching model with heterogeneous workers and firms estimated using administrative data. In an application to Italy, the model estimates imply that the relocation of workers to the most productive region boosts employment and output at the country level
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Commuting time and the gender gap in labor market participation J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Lídia Farré, Jordi Jofre-Monseny, Juan Torrecillas
In this article, we investigate the contribution of increasing travel times to the persistent gender gap in labor market participation. In doing so, we estimate the effect of commuting times on the labor supply of men and women in the USA using microdata from the censuses of the last two decades. To address endogeneity concerns, we adopt an instrumental variables approach that exploits the shape of
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Do highway widenings reduce congestion? J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Ioulia V Ossokina, Jos van Ommeren, Henk van Mourik
Highway construction occurs nowadays mainly through widening of existing roads rather than building new roads. This article documents that highway widenings considerably reduce congestion in the short run, defined here as 6 years. Using longitudinal microdata from highway detector loops in the Netherlands, we find substantial travel time savings. These savings occur despite strong increases in traffic
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The role of community–private sector partnerships in the diffusion of environmental innovation: renewable energy in Southern Israel J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Avri Eitan, Itay Fischhendler, Lior Herman, Gillad Rosen
Local communities have been identified as crucial actors in the diffusion of renewable energy, considered one of the most important eco-innovations of our time. Anecdotal evidence has indicated that local communities tend to play different roles in promoting eco-innovation, particularly renewable energy. However, what this heterogeneity looks like has not yet been quantitatively examined. Our study
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Citizens’ attitude towards subnational borders: evidence from the merger of French regions J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Lionel Wilner
Using the 2016 merger of French regions as a natural experiment, this paper adopts a difference-in-differences identification strategy to recover its causal impact on individual subjective well-being. No depressing effect is found in the short term; life satisfaction has even increased in regions that were absorbed from both economic and political viewpoints. The empirical evidence at stake suggests
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Liability or opportunity? Reconceptualizing the periphery and its role in innovation J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Johannes Glückler, Richard Shearmur, Kirsten Martinus
The continued emphasis on innovation in urban and clustered settings has led many geographers to conceive peripheries as laggard and non-innovative. After reconstructing discussions of the periphery in the context of the geography of firm-level innovation, we argue that normative connotations should be stripped away, and that ‘periphery’ and ‘center’ are better understood as positions in a field. We
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Can foundational economy save regions in crisis? J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Mikhail Martynovich, Teis Hansen, Karl-Johan Lundquist
We perform, to our best knowledge, the first systematic mapping of the foundational economy (FE) at the sub-national level by looking at the FE employment in Swedish regions between 2007 and 2016. We show that the FE itself not only suffered less than traded activities from employment decline during the Great Recession of 2007–2009 but was also a domain of substantial job creation in the post-crisis
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Effects of mass layoffs on local employment—evidence from geo-referenced data J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Philipp vom Berge, Achim Schmillen
Using an event study approach and a novel data set that links administrative information on German establishments with exact distance measures from geo-referenced address data, we analyze the net impact of mass layoffs on local employment. We find that local spillovers significantly attenuate the direct impact of mass layoffs on municipal-level employment. About a quarter of the 1-year direct employment
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A new method for identifying and delineating spatial agglomerations with application to venture-backed startups J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Edward J Egan, James A Brander
This article advances a new approach using hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) for identifying and delineating spatial agglomerations and applies it to venture-backed startups. HCA identifies nested clusters at varying aggregation levels. We describe two methods for selecting a particular aggregation level and the associated agglomerations. The ‘elbow method’ relies entirely on geographic information
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Fertility implications of family-based regularizations J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Cristina Borra, Noelia Rivera-Garrido
We examine the fertility impact of a family-based regularization policy granting temporary legal status to unauthorized immigrants based on their offspring’s citizenship. The policy, enacted through a 2011 Royal Decree in Spain, allows for unauthorized parents of eligible nationalities to become temporary legal residents if they have a Spanish minor. Using data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey (2007–2016)
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South–south migration and female labor supply in the Dominican Republic J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Tatiana Hiller, Marisol Rodríguez Chatruc
This article investigates the effects of female immigration to the Dominican Republic (DR)—most of which is from Haiti and of low-education levels—on the labor supply of native women. Using individual-level data for 2003–2016 and exploiting geographic variation in early immigrant settlements together with time variation in female immigration inflows, we find that female immigration has led to disparate
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Making markets ‘decisive’: a firm-level evaluation of state-led development in the China–Myanmar border region J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Kean Fan Lim, Xiaobo Su
This article critically assesses state–market relations through a comparative firm-level study of state-led development in the China–Myanmar border region. It develops a framework that foregrounds how market building is a contingent and multi-scalar process that underpins the reproduction of stable state rule. The framework is utilized to examine state-led attempts in Ruili, a border city in Yunnan
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Cycles of regional innovative growth J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Christopher R Esposito
For academics and policymakers invested in regional economic development, two pertinent questions are how innovative city-regions rise and whether it is inevitable that innovative city-regions will fall. Using data from 8 million patents granted to U.S.-based inventors between 1850 and 1999, this study describes a general process that city-regions undergo as innovation begins, expands, declines and
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Transit, academic achievement and equalisation: evidence from a subway expansion J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-07-09 Kenzo Asahi, Ignacia Pinto
We identify and quantify the impact of subways on equalising academic achievement in an urban school choice setting. Specifically, we study the short- and medium-term effects of a massive subway network expansion in Chile on the academic achievement gap between low- and high-performing students. Estimates are derived using fixed-effects models. Closer proximity to the subway network is associated with
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How to enter high-opportunity places? The role of social contacts for residential mobility J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-07-09 Virág Ilyés, István Boza, László Lőrincz, Rikard H Eriksson
The aim of this article is to analyze the contribution of social ties to moving to high-opportunity locations and assess whether their effect is more pronounced for low-income individuals as a compensation for economic resources. This is done by utilizing Swedish administrative data and by focusing on a wide range of relationships (observed directly or inferred from the data): close and distant family
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Wage variations and commuting distance J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-06-28 El-Mehdi Aboulkacem, Clément Nedoncelle
We estimate the causal impact of wage variations on commuting distance of workers. We test whether higher wages across years lead workers to live further away from their working place. We use employer–employee data for the French Ile-de-France region (surrounding Paris), from 2003 to 2008, and we deal with the endogenous relation between income and commuting using an instrumental variable strategy
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Stars as catalysts: an event-study analysis of the impact of star-scientist recruitment on local research performance in a small open economy J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-06-12 John McHale, Jason Harold, Jen-Chung Mei, Akhil Sasidharan, Anil Yadav
There is increasing interest among policymakers in small open economies in the use of star-scientist recruitment policies to catalyse the development of local clusters in targeted research areas. We use Scopus to assemble a dataset on over 1.4 million publications and subsequent citations for Denmark, Ireland and New Zealand from 1990 to 2017. An event-study model is used to estimate the dynamic effects
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A world divided: refugee centers, house prices and household preferences J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Martijn I Dröes,Hans R A Koster
Abstract Using detailed housing transactions data from the Netherlands covering more than two decades, we examine the disamenity effect associated with the opening of refugee centers (RCs). We show that the opening of an RC decreases local house prices by 5.8%. The effect has become stronger in the past decade, in line with an increasing share of nationalist votes. Using micro-data on home buyers’
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The (fuzzy) digital divide: the effect of universal broadband on firm performance J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-04-23 Timothy DeStefano,Richard Kneller,Jonathan Timmis
Abstract Differences in access to high-speed broadband between urban and rural locations are known as the ‘digital divide’. Governments around the world have committed to spending considerable amounts of money to alleviate disparities in broadband infrastructure. However, to date, there is limited causal evidence for broadband and firm performance with even less of an understanding on whether the effects
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The geography of information: evidence from the public debt market J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-03-17 Bill Francis,Iftekhar Hasan,Maya Waisman
Abstract We investigate the link between the spatial concentration of firms in large, central metropolitans (i.e. urban agglomeration) and the cost of public corporate debt. Looking at bond issues over the period 1985–2014, we find that bonds issued by companies headquartered in urban agglomerates have lower at-issue yield spreads than bonds issued by firms based in remote, sparsely populated areas
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Erratum to: Impact of a guaranteed minimum income program on rural-urban migration in China J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-03-12 Anthony Howell
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Foreword for special issue of Journal of Economic Geography on ‘Immigration in OECD Countries’ J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 William Kerr,Hillel Rapoport
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Corrigendum to: Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Ortega J, Verdugo G.
Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbab029
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Impact of a guaranteed minimum income program on rural–urban migration in China J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2022-01-11 Anthony Howel
This article relies on a regression discontinuity (RD) design to estimate the impact of an unconditional cash transfer from Minimum Income Living Allowance (MLSA)—one of the largest basic income guarantee programs in the world—on the household decision to participate in rural–urban migration. The study is informed by novel survey data that provide the first and only representative information on China’s
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A topological approach to the creative city: artists’ perceptions of cultural places in Paris J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Marie Ferru, Alain Rallet, Christophe Cariou
The paper delivers a framework for the analysis of creative cities based on a topology of cultural places and artists’ perceptions of these places in the Paris Region. We apply this framework to a survey of 267 artists by using mental maps to capture their perceptions of the places they regard as having contributed the most to their creativity. A quantitative treatment of these representations was
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International family migration and the dual-earner model J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Martin D Munk, Till Nikolka, Panu Poutvaara
We analyze couples’ joint decisions about emigration and labor force participation using survey data on Danish emigrants, combined with full population administrative data. Couples are most likely to emigrate if the male partner or both partners hold a college degree and least likely to emigrate if neither of the partners is college educated. Probability that a dual-earner couple emigrates increases
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Automobiles and urban density J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2021-12-12 Francis Ostermeijer, Hans R A Koster, Jos van Ommeren, Victor Mayland Nielsen
How has the rise of the automobile influenced urban areas over the past century? In this paper, we investigate the long-run impact of car ownership on urban population density, based on a sample of 232 city observations in 57 countries. Using the presence of a domestic car manufacturer in 1920 as a source of exogenous variation, our IV estimates indicate that car ownership substantially reduces density
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Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2021-11-17 A Kerem Coşar, Banu Demir, Devaki Ghose, Nathaniel Young
What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an existing paved road network is expanded significantly? We investigate this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a large-scale public investment in roads during the 2000s. Using spatially disaggregated data on road upgrades and domestic transactions, we estimate a large positive
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The ties that bind and transform: knowledge remittances, relatedness and the direction of technical change J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2021-10-29 Valentina Di Iasio, Ernest Miguelez
This study investigates whether high-skilled migration in a sample of OECD countries fosters technological diversification in the migrants’ countries of origin. We focus on migrant inventors and study their role as vectors of knowledge remittances. Further, we particularly analyze whether migrants spark related or unrelated diversification back home. To account for the uneven distribution of knowledge
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Weather shocks and migration intentions in Western Africa: insights from a multilevel analysis J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2021-10-27 Simone Bertoli, Frédéric Docquier, Hillel Rapoport, Ilse Ruyssen
We use a multilevel approach to investigate whether a general and robust relationship between weather shocks and (internal and international) migration intentions can be uncovered in Western African countries. We combine individual survey data with measures of localized weather shocks for 13 countries over the 2008–2016 period. A meta-analysis on results from about 51,000 regressions is conducted to
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To be connected or not to be connected? The role of long-haul economies J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Hans R A Koster, Takatoshi Tabuchi, Jacques-François Thisse
We investigate whether localities gain or lose employment when there are connected to a transportation network, such as a high-speed railway line. We argue that long-haul economies—implying that the marginal transportation cost decreases with network distance—play a pivotal role in understanding the location choices of firms. We develop a new spatial model to show that improvements in transportation
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Corrigendum to: Impasse or mutation? Austerity and (de)financialisation of local governments in Britain J. Econ. Geogr. (IF 5.117) Pub Date : 2021-10-16 Hulya Dagdeviren, Ewa Karwowski
Journal of Economic Geography 2021, https://doi:10.1093/jeg/lbab028