Is specialization good for regional economic development?, Regional Studies. Debates about urban growth and change often centre on specialization. However, arguments linking specialization to metropolitan economic development contain diverse, and sometimes conflicting, claims. Is it better to be highly specialized or diversified? Does specialization refer to the absolute or relative scale of an activity in a region? Does specialization have static or evolutionary effects? This paper investigates these questions in theoretical and empirical terms. By analysing local agglomerations over time, it is found that growing absolute specialization is positively linked to wages, while changes in relative concentration are not significantly associated with wage dynamics. Regional economic developmentSpecialization Agglomeration KEMENY T. et STORPER M. La spécialisation, est-elle bonne pour le développement économique régional?, Regional Studies. Les débats à propos de la croissance et du développement urbains portent souvent sur la spécialisation. Toujours est-il que les arguments qui relient la spécialisation au développement économique métropolitain embrassent diverses revendications souvent contradictoires. Est-ce qu'il vaut mieux être hautement spécialisé ou diversifié? La spécialisation, fait-elle allusion à l'étendue absolue ou relative d'une activité dans la région? La spécialisation, a-t-elle des impacts statiques ou évolutifs? Ce présent article examine ces questions des points de vue théorique et empirique. En analysant les agglomérations locales dans le temps, il s'avère que la spécialisation absolue croissante est liée positivement aux salaires, tandis que les changements de la concentration relative ne sont pas associés de façon significative à la dynamique des salaires. Développement économique régional Spécialisation AgglomérationJEL classifications: O18, O21, R11, R12
Popular explanations of the Brexit vote have centred on the division between cosmopolitan internationalists who voted Remain, and geographically rooted individuals who voted Leave.In this paper, we conduct the first empirical test of whether residential immobility -the concept underpinning this distinction -was an important variable in the Brexit vote. We find that locally rooted individuals -defined as those living in their county of birth -were 7 percent more likely to vote Leave. However, the impact of immobility was filtered by local circumstances: immobility only mattered for respondents in areas experiencing relative economic decline or increases in migrant populations.
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