Basic Public Services, Population Migration and Regional Economic Growth

Effect of Population Density, Division and Distance on Regional Economic Growth

Migration and Local Public Services

Using unique Swedish micro data we examine the impact of local public services on community choice. The choice of community is modeled as a choice between a discrete set of alternatives. The US literature has produced conflicting evidence with respect to the importance of local public services. We find a robust positive (negative) relationship between local public services (local income tax rat...

Regional Economic Growth and Spatial Spillover Effects in MENA Area

T he main objective of this study is to estimate the spatial spillover effects of the economic growth among the selected countries of MENA region. For this purpose, the Spatial Durbin Model in the framework of spatial dynamic panel data was estimated during the period of 1970-2010. The spatial Diagnostic tests affirmed the occurrence of spatial positive autocorrelation phenomenon for...

The Impact of Inter-regional Labor Migration on Economic Growth and Regional Disparity (draft)

Based on the China Regional Input-Output tables 2002 and other data from various sources, a 30 regions recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium model (CGE) was constructed to study the effect of inter-regional labor migration in China. This model has taken into account of many characteristics of migration in China, such as wage gap between migration and local workers, population migrati...

Analysis of the Effect of Regional Creativity on Regional Economic Growth within New Economic Geographical Models

A mong the theories explaining the relationship between creativity criteria in cities and economic growth, “Human Capital Theory” by Glaeser and “Creative Class theory” by Florida can be mentioned. Accordingly, present paper aimed at analysis of the creativity effect on regional economic growth and is presented in two theoretical and experimental parts. Considering the results of the curre...