The Determinants of Urban Concentration

Junius, Karsten

doi:10.2139/ssrn.42640

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“…Urban primacy is based on urban agglomerations of 750,000 or more. For an international comparison of primacy, see also Appendix Table 1 in Junius (1997), which uses data from a previous edition of United Nations (2008). 7 The slope of the rank-size relationship is flatter for Australasian cities than it is in many other countries, suggesting that Australasian cities are unusually highly concentrated.…”

Section: Ministry Of Economic Development (2008)mentioning

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Labour Productivity in Auckland Firms

Maré

2008

Motu Working Paper

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This paper examines labour productivity in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, using microdata from Statistics New Zealand's Prototype Longitudinal Business Database. It documents a sizeable productivity premium in Auckland, around half of which is due to industry composition. There is a cross sectional correlation between productivity and employment density, reflecting differences in both physical productivity and prices. This correlation is evident both within Auckland, and comparing Auckland with other areas. The relationship between changes in density and changes in productivity is less strong. The relationship between productivity and overall or own-industry employment density varies across industries, suggesting that the nature and extent of agglomeration benefits varies. Overall, localisation effects appear stronger than urbanisation, with productivity being more strongly related to own-industry density than to overall density.

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Section: Ministry Of Economic Development (2008)mentioning

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Labour Productivity in Auckland Firms

Maré

2008

Motu Working Paper

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“…En esta línea, las fuerzas de aglomeración (centrípetas) crean beneficios para las personas y las empresas que se localizan cerca unas de otras, lo que da lugar a la existencia de las ciudades; en contrapartida, las fuerzas de dispersión (centrífugas) limitan el tamaño de una ciudad (Duranton & Puga, 2000). En este contexto, los estudios empíricos sobre análisis de las ciudades indican que la concentración de la población tiene una relación positiva con el desarrollo económico regional (Junius, 1997;Lutz, 2001).…”

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En búsqueda de un desarrollo integral: 20 ensayos en torno al Perú del Bicentenario

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Yamada

2021

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“…Based on their concept, they¯nd evidence for population growth convergence of US-cities. Junius (1997) shows that the degree of urbanization increases in the take-o® stage of industrialization, levels o®, and¯nally decreases as countries grow richer.…”

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Divergence - Is It Geography?

2002

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This paper tests directly a geography and growth model using regional data for Europe, the US, and Japan during di®erent time periods. We set up a standard geography and growth model with a poverty trap and derive a log-linearized growth equation that corresponds directly to a threshold regression technique in econometrics. In particular, we test whether regions with high population density (centers) grow faster and have a permanently higher per capita income than regions with low population density (peripheries). We¯nd geography driven divergence for US states and European regions after 1980. Population density is superior in explaining divergence to initial income which the most important o±cial EU eligibility criterium for regional aid is built on. Divergence is stronger on smaller regional units (NUTS3) than on larger ones (NUTS2). Thus, the wavelength of agglomeration forces seems to be rather small in Europe. Human capital and R&D are transmission channels of divergence processes. Human capital based poverty trap models are an alternative explanation for regional poverty traps.JEL Classi¯cation: O41, R11, F12 Keywords: threshold estimation, economic geography, regional income convergence, poverty trap, regime shifts, bootstrap |||||||||||||||{¤ The authors thank Elvisa Cokoja Torlak for her research assistance. Many helpful comments came from Matthias Ross and workshop participants of a workshop on \Economic geography and regional growth" at HWWA, Hamburg, and the ERWIT conference at LSE.

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The Determinants of Urban Concentration

Cited by 6 publications

References 37 publications

Labour Productivity in Auckland Firms

Labour Productivity in Auckland Firms

En búsqueda de un desarrollo integral: 20 ensayos en torno al Perú del Bicentenario

Divergence - Is It Geography?

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