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2. Regional cost‐of‐living differentials, rural–urban migration, and the contribution to economic growth.
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Saracoğlu, Dürdane Şirin and Roe, Terry L.
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RURAL-urban migration , *COST of living , *ECONOMIC development , *ECONOMIC equilibrium , *DOMESTIC architecture , *DECISION making - Abstract
Using a multi‐region, multi‐sector dynamic model of an economy with rural–urban migration fit to Turkish data, this paper explores the evolution of each region's output and factor allocation as well as inter‐regional disparities that emerge with migration. Migration or residence decision of households is endogenous with respect to regional cost‐of‐living differentials. Results show that migration slows down and dampens the shift of labour from urban manufacturing to services, despite the increase in demand for urban services. It is also established that rural–urban migration contributes positively to growth while the reallocation of labour within each region proves to be unfavourable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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3. Trade costs, wage difference, and endogenous growth.
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Tanaka, Akinori and Yamamoto, Kazuhiro
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ECONOMIC development , *ECONOMIC models , *INTERNATIONAL trade , *ECONOMIC equilibrium , *WAGE differentials , *MANUFACTURING industries , *INNOVATIONS in business - Abstract
In this paper, we develop an endogenous growth and international trade model with two countries in which equilibrium wages in the two countries are different between two countries. First, when trade costs are high, the share of manufacturing firms in the large country increases with a decline in trade costs because of market size. However, the share of firms then decreases with a decline in trade costs when trade costs are low because of wage differences. Finally, all firms agglomerate in the small country, since production costs in the small country are low. In this process, the innovation sector shifts its location from the large-market and high-wage country to the small-market and low-wage country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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4. Introduction: The MIRAB model in the twenty-first century.
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Bertram, Geoff
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ISLAND economies , *ECONOMIC development , *SOCIOECONOMICS , *ECONOMIC equilibrium , *REMITTANCES , *TOURISM , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *DIASPORA - Abstract
The papers collected in this volume were originally presented at a conference in February 2004, on the theme ‘Beyond MIRAB: The Political Economy of Small Islands in the Twenty-First Century’. Several of the papers in the collection point towards the emergence of a new three-way taxonomy of small-island socioeconomic formations, comprising MIRAB, PROFIT and SITE ideal-types. The key economic flows in the first are remittances and aid; in the second, jurisdictionally-related flows such as tax-haven and money-laundering transactions; and in the third, tourism revenues. All three ideal-types correspond to potentially sustainable temporary equilibria, but in all cases the existing set-up is path-dependent, and subject to regime switch if disturbed. Conceptualisation of the small-island world as a field of multiple equilibria and path dependence points to the future importance of event studies by island researchers. The collection includes also new research on the theory of remittances, and case studies of the MIRAB process and the transnational migrant diaspora. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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5. Health, Education and Emergence from the Development Trap.
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Berthélemy, Jean-Claude
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PUBLIC health , *EDUCATION , *ECONOMIC development , *ECONOMIC equilibrium , *TRANSPARENCY in government , *DEMOCRACY ,DEVELOPING countries - Abstract
This paper studies the emergence of developing countries from a development trap. It shows that countries whose dynamics exhibits several growth peaks can be considered as cases of equilibrium jump. Applying this criterion to a sample of 65 countries that were initially very poor in 1950, it identifies 13 such countries, called 'emerging economies'. Comparing emerging and non-emerging economies in the 1950s and early 1960s, it shows that economic take-offs starting in the 1960s can be related to health and education in the early 1950s, while other possible factors, such as savings, openness and democracy are not significant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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6. Rethinking Economic Growth in a Globalizing World: An Economic Geography Lens.
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Venables, Anthony J.
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ECONOMIC development , *GLOBALIZATION , *INTERNATIONAL markets , *ECONOMIC equilibrium , *ECONOMIC activity - Abstract
This paper argues that cumulative causation processes are fundamental to understanding growth and development. Such processes derive from spatially concentrated increasing returns to scale including thick market effects, knowledge spillovers, sectoral and urban clustering, and self-reinforcing improvements in physical and social infrastructure. These sources of agglomeration have been extensively analyzed in the economic geography literature. They imply that spatial unevenness in economic activity and incomes is an equilibrium outcome. Growth tends to be ‘lumpy’, with some sectors in some countries growing fast while other countries lag. The policy challenge is to lift potential new centers of economic activity to the point where they can reap the productivity and investment climate advantages of increasing returns and cumulative causation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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7. TAUX D'INTERET, DISTRIBUTION DU REVENU, THEORIE DES CYCLES VITAUX ET CHOIX DU PORTEFEUILLE.
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Baranzini, Mauro
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BUSINESS cycles , *ECONOMIC development , *ECONOMIC equilibrium - Abstract
This paper explores the consequences of the introduction of the life-cycle hypothesis into an economic growth model with two classes of savers (profits earners and wage earners). Our analysis shows that the determination of the equilibrium interest rate is more flexible than in the corresponding model with constant propensities to save: the results obtained are however basically similar to those obtained in the traditional KALDOR/PASINETTI model. As a matter of fact, the rate of interest turns out to be (a) higher than the natural rate of growth, (b) determined by the behavioural parameters of the profits earners only, and (c) independent of the form of the production function. Looking at the long term properties of the model we show that interest uncertainty may have a stabilizing effect on the equilibrium growth rate of the model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1981
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8. Models of spatial competition: A critical review.
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Biscaia, Ricardo and Mota, Isabel
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ECONOMIC competition , *ECONOMIC models , *ECONOMIC development , *BUSINESS enterprises , *STRATEGIC planning , *INDUSTRIAL costs , *ECONOMIC equilibrium - Abstract
This critical review focuses on the development of spatial competition models à la Hotelling in which the location choice of firms plays a major role. We start by quantifying the research in this field by using bibliometric tools. Thereafter, this study identifies the main research paths within spatial competition modelling. Specifically, the type of strategy (Bertrand vs. Cournot competition), the assumptions that are made in respect to the market (linear vs. circular), production costs, transportation costs, the number of firms and the type of information (complete vs. incomplete) and their effects on the location equilibria are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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