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Business, Economy and Management --- Social Sciences --- Economics --- Developmental Issues & Socioeconomic Studies --- wales --- economy --- regional economies --- regional policy --- regional analysis --- economic policy
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This paper develops a method of testing levels of economic integration based upon consumption smoothing, and tests it using data on trade balances across Canadian provinces. The results indicate the provinces are highly integrated within Canada, but integration between Canada and the rest of the world is partial. Provincial trade balances respond only about half as much to events in the rest of the world as they do to events within Canada. In short, national borders appear to matter for intertemporal trade.
Exports and Imports --- Macroeconomics --- Economic Integration --- Financial Aspects of Economic Integration --- General Equilibrium and Welfare Economic Analysis of Regional Economies --- Aggregate Factor Income Distribution --- Macroeconomics: Consumption --- Saving --- Wealth --- Empirical Studies of Trade --- International economics --- Income --- Trade balance --- Consumption --- Economic integration --- Government consumption --- National accounts --- International trade --- Economics --- Balance of trade --- International economic integration --- Canada
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This open access book offers unique and novel views on the social innovation landscape, tools, practices, pedagogies, and research in the context of higher education. International, multi-disciplinary academics and industry leaders present new developments, research evidence, and practice expertise on social innovation in higher education institutions (HEIs), across academic and professional disciplines. The book includes a selected set of peer-reviewed chapters presenting different perspectives against which relevant actors can identify and analyse social innovation in HEIs. The volume demonstrates how HEIs can respond to societal challenges, support positive social change, and contribute to the development of international public policy discourse. It answers the question ‘how does the present higher education system, in different countries, promote social innovation and create social change and impact’. In answering this question, the book identifies factors driving success as well as obstacles. Furthermore, it examines how higher education innovation assists societal challenges and investigates the benefits of effective social innovation engagement by HEIs. The interdisciplinary approach of the volume makes it a must-read for scholars, students, policy-makers, and practitioners of economics, education, business and management, political science, and sociology interested in a better understanding of social innovation.
Economics --- Higher & further education, tertiary education --- Business & management --- Central government policies --- Public finance --- Open Access --- Social change --- Higher education institutions --- Societal challenges --- Universities --- Triple helix --- Quadruple helix --- SDGs --- Sustainability --- Knowledge alliances --- Entrepreneurship --- Future employment markets --- Knowledge transfer --- Digitalisation --- Community-based learning --- Funding of higher education institution --- Sectoral specialization of the regional economies
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It is obvious that holding city population constant, differences in cities across the world are enormous. Urban giants in poor countries are not large using measures such as land area, interior space or value of output. These differences are easily reconciled mathematically as population is the product of land area, structure space per unit land (i.e., heights), and population per unit interior space (i.e., crowding). The first two are far larger in the cities of developed countries while the latter is larger for the cities of developing countries. In order to study sources of diversity among cities with similar population, we construct a version of the standard urban model (SUM) that yields the prediction that the elasticity of city size with respect to income could be similar within both developing countries and developed countries. However, differences in income and urban technology can explain the physical differences between the cities of developed countries and developing countries. Second, using a variety of newly merged data sets, the predictions of the SUM for similarities and differences of cities in developed and developing countries are tested. The findings suggest that population is a sufficient statistic to characterize city differences among cities within the same country, not across countries.
Cities and towns --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- Infrastructure --- Labor --- Macroeconomics --- Real Estate --- Demography --- General Equilibrium and Welfare Economic Analysis of Regional Economies --- Land Use Patterns --- Housing Supply and Markets --- Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion --- Safety and Accidents --- Transportation Noise --- Transportation Systems: Government and Private Investment Analysis --- Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis --- Housing --- Technological Change: Choices and Consequences --- Diffusion Processes --- Demographic Economics: General --- Aggregate Factor Income Distribution --- Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General --- Population & demography --- Labour --- income economics --- Property & real estate --- Population and demographics --- Income --- Wages --- Housing prices --- National accounts --- Prices --- Population --- Saving and investment --- United States --- Income economics
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This superb historical and ethnographic study of the political economy of the Vega Baja region of Spain, one of the European Union's "Regional Economies," takes up the difficult question of how to understand the growing alienation ordinary working people feel in the face of globalization. Combining rich oral histories with a sophisticated and nuanced structural understanding of changing political economies, the authors examine the growing divide between government and its citizens in a region that has in the last four decades been transformed from a primarily agricultural economy to a primarily industrial one. Offering a new form of ethnography appropriate for the study of suprastate polities and a globalized economy, Immediate Struggles contributes to our understanding of one region as well as the way we think about changing class relations, modes of production, and cultural practices in a newly emerging Europe. The authors also consider how phenomena such as the "informal economy" and "black market" are not marginal to the normal operation of state and economic institutions but are intertwined with both.
Ethnology --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Bajo Segura (Spain) --- Segura (Spain) --- Vega Baja del Segura (Spain) --- Economic conditions. --- Rural conditions. --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Bajo Segura (Espagne) --- Conditions rurales --- Conditions économiques --- agriculture. --- alienation. --- cultural practices. --- ethnographers. --- ethnography. --- europe. --- global economy. --- globalization. --- government and governing. --- historians. --- historical perspective. --- industrial economy. --- informal economy. --- nonfiction. --- oral histories. --- political economies. --- political economy. --- power struggles. --- regional economies. --- rural landscape. --- social impact. --- spain. --- spanish culture. --- spanish politics. --- spanish society. --- vega baja region. --- working class.
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We show in the context of a new economic geography model that when labor is heterogenous trade liberalization may lead to industrial agglomeration and interregional trade. Labor heterogeneity gives local monopoly power to firms but also introduces variations in the quality of the job match. Matches are likely to be better when there are more firms and workers in the local market, giving rise to an agglomeration force that can offset the forces against trade costs and the erosion of monopoly power. We derive analytically a robust agglomeration equilibrium and illustrate its properties with numerical simulations.
Industrial location --- Labor market --- International trade --- Employees --- Market, Labor --- Supply and demand for labor --- Markets --- Business enterprises --- Business location --- Corporations --- Industries --- Industries, Location of --- Location of industries --- Plant location --- Regional planning --- Space in economics --- Econometric models. --- Supply and demand --- Location --- Labor --- Macroeconomics --- Industries: Manufacturing --- Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies --- Labor Contracts --- Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity --- General Equilibrium and Welfare Economic Analysis of Regional Economies --- Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General --- Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General --- Labor Economics: General --- Demand and Supply of Labor: General --- Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure --- Labour --- income economics --- Manufacturing industries --- Manufacturing --- Wages --- Labor supply --- Labor force --- Economic sectors --- Labor economics --- United States --- Income economics
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Despite what history has taught us about imperialism's destructive effects on colonial societies, many classicists continue to emphasize disproportionately the civilizing and assimilative nature of the Roman Empire and to hold a generally favorable view of Rome's impact on its subject peoples. Imperialism, Power, and Identity boldly challenges this view using insights from postcolonial studies of modern empires to offer a more nuanced understanding of Roman imperialism. Rejecting outdated notions about Romanization, David Mattingly focuses instead on the concept of identity to reveal a Roman society made up of far-flung populations whose experience of empire varied enormously. He examines the nature of power in Rome and the means by which the Roman state exploited the natural, mercantile, and human resources within its frontiers. Mattingly draws on his own archaeological work in Britain, Jordan, and North Africa and covers a broad range of topics, including sexual relations and violence; census-taking and taxation; mining and pollution; land and labor; and art and iconography. He shows how the lives of those under Rome's dominion were challenged, enhanced, or destroyed by the empire's power, and in doing so he redefines the meaning and significance of Rome in today's debates about globalization, power, and empire. Imperialism, Power, and Identity advances a new agenda for classical studies, one that views Roman rule from the perspective of the ruled and not just the rulers. In a new preface, Mattingly reflects on some of the reactions prompted by the initial publication of the book.
--Roman provinces --- Acculturation --- Imperialism. --- Power (Social sciences). --- Roman provinces --- Romans --- Administration. --- Ethnic identity. --- Rome --- History --- Foreign relations --- Ethnic relations. --- Imperialism --- Power (Social sciences) --- Ethnology --- Italic peoples --- Latini (Italic people) --- State governments --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Culture contact --- Development education --- Civilization --- Culture --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Cultural fusion --- Administration --- Ethnic identity --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Rome ancienne --- --Impérialisme --- Provinces romaines --- Romains --- Impérialisme --- Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) --- Identité ethnique --- Histoire --- Relations extérieures --- Relations interethniques --- Culture contact (Acculturation) --- Impérialisme --- Roman provinces - Administration --- Acculturation - Rome --- Rome - History - Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. --- Rome - Foreign relations - 30 B.C.-476 A.D. --- Africa Proconsularis. --- Britain. --- Britannia. --- Libya. --- Maghreb. --- North Africa. --- Numidia. --- Roman Africa. --- Roman Empire. --- Roman archaeology. --- Roman art. --- Roman economic world. --- Roman economy. --- Roman imperialism. --- Roman provinces. --- Roman society. --- Romanization. --- Romanized style. --- Tripolitana. --- Wadi Faynan landscape survey. --- ancient colonialism. --- colonialism. --- creolization. --- economic activity. --- economic growth. --- empire. --- globalization. --- identity. --- imperial policy. --- imperial power. --- imperialism. --- independence. --- indigenous traditions. --- metal production. --- metalla. --- mining. --- modern colonialism. --- power. --- regional economies. --- sex. --- sexual attitudes. --- sexual behavior. --- sexual power. --- sexuality. --- state. --- Ethnicité --- Antiquité --- Relations extérieures --- 30 av. J.-C.-476 --- Ethnicité --- Antiquité
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