BSTRACTChildren ‘in care’ have, on average, lower educational attainment than their peers. This article tests the hypothesis that many of these children can ‘catch-up’, if in stable placements and secondary schools ‘apparently effective’ with other ‘similar’ difficulties. In a cohort 542,998 16-year-old English mainstream schools, those care for at least year were average 148,465 ranks behind p...

The article is devoted to the problem of spatial inequality regions caused by centripetal or centrifugal forces because agglomeration effects and interaction costs. It corresponds with main idea new economic geography. A differentiated approach regional development strategizing proposed in study as a tool for reducing level imbalance. Herein use technological arbitrage (catching-up) strategy pe...

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Learning is central to knowledge-based development. It is through learning that innovation capabilities of firm and social capabilities to adapt to change get improved. This paper focuses on learning at firm and in cluster in developing countries. Three distinctive paths or models of industrial latecomer learning are analyzed: a) individual firm-based latecomer learning, with Korean firms as pr...

This paper extends the standard neoclassical model by considering a technology sector through which an economy with limited human capital attempts to catch up with a given “locomotive” pushing exogenously technical progress. In periods of technological stagnation, economies close enough to the frontier may find it optimal to not catch up, which reinforces worldwide technological sclerosis. Unde...

This paper analyzes the evolution of Chinese urban income distribution across space and time in post-reform era. Our results suggest no evidence on income convergence across cities during the period 1984-2003. We find that cities with comparable income level are likely to be co-located in the same region; further, cities tend to mirror the mobility of their counterparts located in the same prov...